Open-vm-tools vmtoolsd crashes when script fails to achieve lock.

[denlun]

Running on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS with open-vm-tools version 9.4.0.
When lock is achieved within the timeout the vmtoolsd process is still running fine, but if locking fails the vmtoolsd process is no longer running after the script ends.

[sergesyrota]

Oh, interesting, just noticed now that there was this issue created. Wondering if my github emails are getting trashed.

Anyways, is this still happening? Is this a problem with script not producing correct exit codes, or a bug in open-vm-tools? Were you able to figure out a workaround?

[denlun]

Well, no.
The scripts were in put in place to do a "FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK" on MariaDB before Veeam ran it's snapshot for backing up. Fortunately the job load on the MariaDB changed to shorter running queries so I no longer run into the issue with the lock failing due to a timeout waiting for long-running SQL queries.

[denlun]

I can post the script if anyone is interested...

[sergesyrota]

Hmm, this script has a mechanism to not run flush until all long running queries have finished executing. There is still timeout (10 minutes by default) to acquire a lock. You can play with those variables to adjust as needed.

Not sure how the script you're using is different in regards how it handles long running queries.