Recovering from error message during Workstation upgrade on Linux host when port 443 is unavailable.

Recovering from error message during Workstation upgrade on Linux host when port 443 is unavailable.

The installer to upgrade from VMWare Workstation 14.0 to 14.1.12 hits a snag when the installer checks whether the port 443 is available on the local host for the service to listen to.  It appears that the installer does not properly shutdown the process vmware-hostd earlier in the install, and so it prompts the user for a different port number.

The simple fix when encountering this error is first to check what is listening to that port:

Execute the command

sudo netstat -pan | grep 443

The first result will tell you what process is using that port:

tcp    0 0.0.0.0:443         0.0.0.0:*           LISTEN  3757/vmware-hostd  

Obviously in this case we simply need to stop the vmware-hostd process.  If something else is listening to that port, you can identify an open port and provide that value.  Otherwise simply kill the offending process and then continue forward:

sudo kill -9 3757

Comments

I've been simply setting the port to 22222 or some other large number and then setting back to 443 for the next upgrade, it seems to update both hostd and the main windows to the updated port when it runs the installer.

But yes, it really should actually shut down hostd before erroring due to the port being in use...

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