Re: Serious issue with release candidate under VMWare

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

Hi,

On 2015-03-05 11:30, lange@chello.at wrote:
> There is still an serious issue if you run "Jessie" under VMWare
> Workstation/Player. Most of the time
> the X-Server will hang on shutdown, causing the Machine to hang (not 
> even
> possible to switch to a VT) and results in unclean "kills".
>
> The Bug is already in the tracker, together with a patch from upstream.
> xserver-xorg-video-vmware Bug (
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=765490 )
>
> Please add this fix, otherwise Jessie will likely need some backport 
> fixes for
> VMWare during its entire lifetime.

Have you talked to the package maintainers? Leaving aside any question 
of whether the bug would qualify at this stage of the freeze, there's 
definitely no way the package can be updated in jessie when the fix 
isn't even in unstable.

Regards,

Adam