We have users on Lenovo Carbon laptops gen 9 that are getting an error. Users are on 2106 vmware and cannot access vmware without running in compatibility mode or uninstalling and installing 2111. This just started happening this week for us.
Error displayed is VMWare Horizon View unrecoverable error. (host.12236) Exception 0xc0000005 (access violation) has occurred.
Here are the errors taken from the log
2022-02-23T17:35:05.228Z In(05) host-13072 [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file "C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Horizon View\config.ini": The system cannot find the file specified.2022-02-23T17:35:05.230Z In(05) host-13072 [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file "C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Horizon View\settings.ini": The system cannot find the file specified.
2022-02-23T17:35:05.230Z In(05) host-13072 [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file "C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Horizon View\config.ini": The system cannot find the file specified.
2022-02-23T17:35:05.230Z In(05) host-13072 [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file "C:\Users\xxxxxx\AppData\Roaming\VMware\config.ini": The system cannot find the file specified.
2022-02-23T17:35:05.233Z In(05) host-13072 [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file "C:\Users\xxxxxx\AppData\Roaming\VMware\preferences.ini": The system cannot find the file specified.
2022-02-23T17:35:05.235Z In(05) host-13072 ViewClient_GetDumpSettings: failed to open reg key of dump settings.
2022-02-23T17:35:05.270Z In(05) main VIEWWINCLIENT: RegQueryValueEx(LowLevelHooksTimeout) failed: The system cannot find the file specified (2)
2022-02-23T17:35:05.288Z In(05) main - Error (234:More data is available)
2022-02-23T17:35:05.288Z In(05) main - Error (234:More data is available)
2022-02-23T17:35:05.288Z In(05) main - Error (234:More data is available)
2022-02-23T17:35:05.288Z In(05) main - Error (234:More data is available)
2022-02-23T17:35:10.021Z In(05) host-12488 Msg_Post: Error
2022-02-23T17:35:10.021Z In(05) host-12488 [msg.log.error.unrecoverable] VMware Horizon View unrecoverable error: (host-12488)
I tried contacting support but the call quality was so bad that I had to ask the rep to repeat herself more than 10 times and she hung up.