Hamachi not working on Ubuntu 17.10

Question

It seems that Hamachi is not working correctly on Ubuntu 17.10. In particular, every invocation of hamachi returns:

Hamachi does not seem to be running.
Run '/etc/init.d/logmein-hamachi start' to start daemon.

even after running /etc/init.d/logmein-hamachi start. Anyone has a clue on how to solve this?

Solution

Hamachi version 2.1.0.174 doesn't work because it's not compatible with the newer glibc version 2.26, which is included in Ubuntu 17.10. The hamachi daemon will crash the moment you try to login with the following error:

hamachid: relocation error: hamachid: symbol __res_maybe_init, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference

See this forum post for more details

I'm affraid the only way to solve this is to wait or push for LogMeIn to release a new Hamachi version that is compatible with glibc 2.26.

UPDATE 18th January 2018: LogMeIn has released Hamachi for Linux beta version 2.1.0.189. This version is compatible with glibc 2.26 and can now be downloaded from https://www.vpn.net/linux

Comments

[David Foerster]

Which version of Hamachi are you using exactly and how did you install it?

[Filippo Bistaffa]

Version 2.1.0.174-1 for amd64. I downloaded the deb package from vpn.net/linux and installed it with dpkg

[David Foerster]

Could you please run /etc/init.d/logmein-hamachi stop and then edit your question to include the output of sudo service logmein-hamachi start; sudo service logmein-hamachi status; pidof hamachid? Thanks.