This may be the answer to the issue. For me all I have to do is remove open-vm-tools as my version of Linux has support for VMware tools built in.
https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2015/09/open-vm-tools-ovt-the-future- of-vmware-tools-for-linux.html -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1709210 Title: open-vm-tools-dkms 2:10.0.7-3227872-5ubuntu1~16.04.1: open-vm-tools kernel module failed to build [gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-fstack-protector-strong’] To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/1709210/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
