/opt/vmware/sbin/vmware-authdlauncher fails to start

[lourdas]

Using the latest vmware-working-16.1.0.17198959 ebuild and systemd. Kernel is 5.11.6. When trying to start vmware-authdlauncher, it fails. journalctl shows:

vmware-authdlauncher[6593]: /opt/vmware/sbin/vmware-authdlauncher: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.1.0.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

libssl.so.1.0.2 is already there:

ls -l /opt/vmware/lib/vmware/lib/libssl.so.1.0.2/
total 460
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 470296 Μαρ  13 12:05 libssl.so.1.0.2

[lourdas]

Since I use systemd, I copied the .service file inside /etc/systemd/system and added the line

Environment=LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/vmware/lib/vmware/lib/libcrypto.so.1.0.2:/opt/vmware/lib/vmware/lib/libssl.so.1.0.2

As a temporary(?) fix.

[ghost]

@lourdas

Did you manage to solve this? If so, how? https://github.com/stefantalpalaru/gentoo-overlay/issues/82

[lourdas]

@lourdas

Did you manage to solve this? If so, how?

82

I did what I wrote in my previous comment. Copy /lib/systemd/system/vmware-authentication.service to /etc/systemd/system/vmware-authentication.service, edit it and insert the line above (Environment=....) under the [Service] section.

The vmware-vmblock.service has been deprecated and is no longer needed.

[stefantalpalaru]

Fixed using a wrapper script. Thanks.