vmtoolsd.service panics due to failing to convert a string to unicode

Solution In Progress - Updated -

Issue

  • vmtoolsd.service panicked due to the following error messages.
vmsvc[921]: [2022-07-27T01:16:23.047Z] [   error] [vmsvc] PANIC unicodeCommon.c:343
abrt-hook-ccpp: Process 921 (vmtoolsd) of user 0 killed by SIGABRT - dumping core
systemd: vmtoolsd.service: main process exited, code=killed, status=6/ABRT
systemd: Unit vmtoolsd.service entered failed state.
systemd: vmtoolsd.service failed.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • open-vm-tools-11.0.5-3.el7_9.3

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