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<p class="MsoNormal">> > > > Hi Lennart,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> > > ><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> > > > After modify journald.conf, got systemd log when the issue<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> > > > reproduced. Please find it in attachment.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> > ><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> > > Looking at the logs there seems to be a lot missing, in particular all<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> > > the debug output of PID 1 is eventually going away.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> > ><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> > > My educated guess: you are runnning "systemctl reboot" from user<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> > > context? i.e. some script you run as part of your user sesion? If so,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> > > when the system goes down your user session of course will be<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> > > terminated. Thus it's a race: either your session (and its associated<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> > > services) are terminated via SIGTERM first, including the systemctl<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> > > command you issued, or the systemctl is quicker and exits before it<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> > > gets killed.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> > ><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> ><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> > Here is where our code calls “/sbin/telinit 6” to reboot Linux.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> > https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fvmware%2Fopen-vm-tools%2Fblob%2Fmaster%2Fopen-vm-tools%2FlibDeployPkg%2FlinuxDeployment.c%23L1466&data=04%7C01%7Cpengpengs%40vmware.com%7C703b24bd11584d4d033d08d90b4a1ad9%7Cb39138ca3cee4b4aa4d6cd83d9dd62f0%7C0%7C0%7C637553235200829094%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=DWWAKyPLV6dqnbJ37%2FFVqpAYapYvVC57reiYTSflFH4%3D&reserved=0<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> > This code is executed when systemd vmtoolsd.service starts, attached the<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> > vmtoolsd.service file.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> > Not seeing this issue before /sbin/telinit becomes a softlink to<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> > systemctl.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> vmtoolsd.service is probably asked to shutdown because of the system<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> shutdown, and the forked off /sbin/telinit is part of that service, so<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> it gets terminated too?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Yes, this could be the reason. The issue is system does NOT always reboot after<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">“uncaught signal 15” happens, while sometimes it does reboot during my local<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">testing. Is there a way/command to make sure system get rebooted?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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