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