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FS#57425 - [open-vm-tools] per-user vmtoolsd segfaults under wayland, breaking clipboard sharing

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Jason Papakostas (vith) - Wednesday, 07 February 2018, 23:27 GMT
Last edited by Christian Hesse (eworm) - Friday, 09 February 2018, 06:48 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Upstream Bugs
Status Closed
Assigned To Christian Hesse (eworm)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
Clipboard sharing doesn't work under Gnome Wayland session because vmtoolsd segfaults.

Additional info:
* package version: community/open-vm-tools 6:10.2.0-1
* dmesg: kernel: vmtoolsd[1056]: segfault at f0 ip 00007f2d5da0fcf2 sp 00007ffec7128a08 error 4 in libgdk-3.so.0.2200.26[7f2d5d9cb000+ed000]
* upstream bug report: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/issues/226

Steps to reproduce:
Run Gnome Wayland session as vmware guest with community/open-vm-tools.
Try to use clipboard sharing feature.

To fix:

I modified the ABS PKGBUILD to cherry-pick this commit as suggested in the github issue:

https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/commit/c5bc784da611ee929e0da7c20a410e03e6540613

Can confirm that it stops the segfault and fixes clipboard sharing.

Is that patch something the community package would be willing to carry or should I publish an AUR package?

Attached is the PKGBUILD I used to test the patch.
   PKGBUILD (2.3 KiB)
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Closed by  Christian Hesse (eworm)
Friday, 09 February 2018, 06:48 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  open-vm-tools 6:10.2.0-2

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