[Bug 226478] emulators/open-vm-tools:

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=226478

            Bug ID: 226478
           Summary: emulators/open-vm-tools:
           Product: Ports & Packages
           Version: Latest
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Many People
          Priority: ---
         Component: Individual Port(s)
          Assignee: jpaetzel at FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: german.mb at gmail.com
             Flags: maintainer-feedback?(jpaetzel at FreeBSD.org)
          Assignee: jpaetzel at FreeBSD.org

I found and fixed a very nasty and serious bug in emulators/open-vm-tools and
emulators/open-vm-tools-nox11.

The bug makes vmtoolsd (vmware-guestd) crash whenever credentials are being
passed to some commands from the host. This produces a state where the host
system only logs (after some time waiting for the command response):

"I125: GuestRpcSendTimedOut: message to toolbox timed out."
"I125: GuestRpcSendTimedOut: message to toolbox timed out."
"I125: GuestRpcSendTimedOut: message to toolbox timed out."
... 

Details in "Calling createTempfileInGuest twice crashes vmtoolsd (FreeBSD)"
https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/issues/236

The fix is in pull request https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/pull/238 in
three files (https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/pull/238/files)

Until it's committed and a new version released, it might be useful to add a
few files in the port (as I said, this is a serious bug) and this is
distributed in the official VMware vagrant images for FreeBSD, making them
useless for provisioning.

Please, if you have the chance, by all means add the patch to the port.

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