VMware ESX Server Host Agent Hang

Sometimes when trying to restart the mgmt-vmware restart service it will hang like this:

To resolve this you can duplicate your SSH session in another window and kill the process.

Steps:

1. ps -ef | grep vmware-hostd
2. look for something like this: /usr/lib/vmware/hostd/vmware-hostd /etc/vmware/hostd/config.xm
3. kill -9 <PID>

After doing this, you should be able to start the service back up.