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I am running Arch Linux (installed from archlinux-2014.01.05-dual.iso) on VMware Player and have installed vmtoolsd (which belongs to open-vm-tools).
Now my problem is that, whenever I do poweroff or reboot, the system just leaves me with a black screen with only a cursor flashing at the top-left corner. If I don't do anything to it, the system will shutdown or reboot in one or two minutes.
I've searched Google for this problem. Some people suggest that I modify /usr/lib/systemd/system/vmtoolsd.service and that I add one line for KillSignal=SIGKILL or TimeoutStopSec=2. However, none of these works. Actually when I do systemctl stop vmtoolsd, it seems to stop quickly.
I guess maybe some other service is in the similar state as is discussed in those posts I see. Is there a workaround on this so that I can shutdown my virtual machine immediately and gracefully, or that I can figure out what is going on during poweroff is executing so that I can tell if any service is blocked?
Update March 4, 2014: I reinstalled Arch Linux and the problem is still there! Is that an issue of VMware? I use VMware Player 6 for Linux? How to display the details when the system is shutting down so that I may know where it gets stuck?
Update March 4, 2014: I used Arch Linux Live CD and similar problem happens with error message: A stop job is running for User Manager for 0. Then I thought this might be a bug which is reported here: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70593 which is a bug of systemd and was fixed in update 209 or 210. I then did an update using pacman -Syu and the delay was gone. However, I think I have updated my Arch Linux last time when I have open-vm-tools installed (before I reinstall the entire system). Now I plan to install open-vm-tools again and see if the same error occurs.
bfrgzju
Posted 2014-03-04T09:25:09.147
Reputation: 219
Is there any specific reason for using
open-vm-tools? If not, get rid of it. Features like mouse integration don't depend on it. – Daniel B – 2014-03-04T09:33:15.717I just reinstalled my Arch Linux but it seems the problem continues. Does it mean that the problem belongs to VMware Player instead of
vmtoolsd? – bfrgzju – 2014-03-04T10:04:32.107@DanielB I updated my question to reflect the progress on the issue. I think it may due to another bug which is caused by
systemd. As is reported,vmtoolsdmay also cause similar phenomenon. I didn't figure out what really happened to me yet. Thanks for your suggestion. – bfrgzju – 2014-03-04T22:23:54.197