VMware Remote Console 10.0.1 on Fedora 26

Welcome back to my (almost) daily appointment with “What’s wrong with Fedora today?”.

At work, our servers are VMs on a VMware vSphere; we access them using SSH of course, but sometimes we need to use the remote console from the vSphere Web Client (that is a vmrc link). I upgraded my kernel (and many libraries) last week but since I don’t use vSphere that often, I didn’t noticed anything until a couple of days ago, when a RAM stick failed and our machines crashed, rebooting in emergency mode.

Usually you login, select your VM, click on Launch Remote Console and you’re done. Unfortunately I got this:

reason       appLoader killed by signal 11
cmdline      /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmrc
executable   /usr/lib/vmware/bin/appLoader
[...]
os_release   Fedora release 26 (Twenty Six)
kernel       4.12.11-300.fc26.x86_64

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