Comment 37 for bug 195982

Your logs may well show some xorg or general segfault errors in this case. Makes the system kind of hard to use! An exit out of xorg is all that is needed to recovery (a reboot does not seem to be required).

OK, at least we have more data. Not sure how that helps given I can't do much more than test. At least the problem seems to be associated to the vmware-tools within the client VPS. For now I just don't use vmware-tools.

I suspect an update from VmWare will be the final solution.