An error occurs when starting vmtoolsd provided by open-vm-tools with “gnome-session: vmware-user: could not open /proc/fs/vmblock/dev”

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Issue

  • An error occurs when starting vmtoolsd provided by open-vm-tools.
  • The error below is seen in /var/log/message :
gnome-session: vmware-user: could not open /proc/fs/vmblock/dev

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • open-vm-tools

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