The foregoing all have failed.  Player remains unable to open a VM.  Player installs.  It can install a VM from ISO and run it but the VM cannot be restarted using the VM's restart command, and cannot be opened after reboot.

Over the past month:

• I have attempted this on Ubuntu 20.04 and three or four reinstalls of Ubuntu 22.04.
• I have attempted reinstall of VMware Player 16.2.3 fifteen or twenty times.
• I have attempted every one of the foregoing recommendations at least three times.

Please see attached logs.  Any suggestions that actually get the software working would be profoundly appreciated.