{"id":2087,"date":"2017-10-15T14:05:10","date_gmt":"2017-10-15T21:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2087"},"modified":"2017-10-15T14:05:10","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T21:05:10","slug":"vmware-14-0-0-fail-to-open-executable-more-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2087","title":{"rendered":"VMware &#8211; 14.0.0 &#8216;Fail to open Executable&#8217; &#8211; More Info.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When running VMware 14 (<strong>14.0.0<\/strong>) from the command line, I noticed the following message:<\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\"><strong>$ vmware<\/strong><\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\"><strong>Fail to open executable: No such file or directory<\/strong><\/span><\/pre>\n<p>Further research suggested that this &#8216;missing&#8217; item was in fact <strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\">\/usr\/lib\/vmware\/lib\/libvmware-unity-helper.so\/libvmware-unity-helper.so<\/span><\/strong>, which is indeed <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not<\/span> included with VMware 14.0.0..<\/p>\n<p>I found a copy of this in an old backup, and tried to restore it to the current VMware library tree, and discovered that it had further VMware library dependencies &#8211; which were also in the old backup:<\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\"><strong>libvmwarebase.so.0<\/strong><\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\"><strong>libvmwareui.so.0<\/strong><\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\"><strong>libgvmomi.so.0<\/strong><\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\"><strong>libview.so.3<\/strong><\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\"><strong>libgcrypt.so.11<\/strong><\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\"><strong>libgcr.so.0<\/strong><\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\"><strong>libgck.so.0<\/strong><\/span><\/pre>\n<p>This was OK, so far, but the last dependency was<\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\"><strong>[AppLoader] Fail to load the library. \/usr\/lib\/vmware\/lib\/libstdc++.so.6\/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.21' not found (required by \/lib64\/libgdkmm-2.4.so.1)<\/strong><\/span><\/pre>\n<p>&#8211; which was a show-stopper, as this would cause a conflict with the existing VMware 14 version of that file&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So, I backed out all the file\/library moves, and will never know if any of this would have made a real difference to any of the performance issues being reported.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I had taken a complete backup of all my VMs before the upgrade, and have considered reverting to 12.5.7 (even with all the &#8216;workarounds&#8217; needed), but &#8211; so far &#8211; have only experienced some sluggishness in the Windows 7 VM operation, so I am staying with 14.0.0, and hoping that 14.0.1 is released soon!<\/p>\n<p><em>Robert Gadsdon\u00a0\u00a0 October 15, 2017..<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When running VMware 14 (14.0.0) from the command line, I noticed the following message: $ vmware Fail to open executable: No such file or directory Further research suggested that this &#8216;missing&#8217; item was in fact \/usr\/lib\/vmware\/lib\/libvmware-unity-helper.so\/libvmware-unity-helper.so, which is indeed not included with VMware 14.0.0.. 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