I have installed vmworkstation pro 14 on a ubuntu 14.04 and whenever I try to spin up a vm I get the error
"Unable to connect to the MKS: Too many socket connect attempts; giving up"
And in the syslog I see:
vmauthd[14486]: LOCALE en_US -> NULL
vmauthd[14486]: Msg_SetLocaleEx: HostLocale=UTF-8 UserLocale=NULL
vmauthd[14486]: setuid: ignoring user's config and preferences
vmauthd[14486]: DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "/usr/lib/vmware/settings": No such file or directory.
vmauthd[14486]: [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file "/usr/lib/vmware/settings": No such file or directory.
vmauthd[14486]: PREF Optional preferences file not found at /usr/lib/vmware/settings. Using default values.
vmauthd[14486]: lib/ssl: OpenSSL using FIPS_drbg for RAND
vmauthd[14486]: lib/ssl: protocol list tls1.2
vmauthd[14486]: lib/ssl: protocol list tls1.2 (openssl flags 0x17000000)
vmauthd[14486]: lib/ssl: cipher list !aNULL:kECDH+AESGCM:ECDH+AESGCM:RSA+AESGCM:kECDH+AES:ECDH+AES:RSA+AES
vmauthd[14486]: Connect from (local) AF_UNIX socket.
vmauthd[14486]: Connect from 127.0.0.1
vmauthd[14486]: local verification as xxxx
vmauthd[14486]: received CONNECT_NOSTART command: /usr2/xxxx/vmware/Debian9.x-64-bit/Debian 9.x 64-bit.vmx mkscontrol
vmauthd[14486]: recv() FAIL: 13.
vmauthd[14486]: VMAuthdSocketRead: read failed. Closing socket for reading.
vmauthd[14486]: Read failed.
Have any of your encountered this?