Yesterday, while upgrading VMware Workstation 14.1.2-8497320 to 14.1.3-9474260 on my Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS machine, got the following error message:
"The VMware Installer could not shut down all running virtual machines. If you have Encrypted VMs open, please shut them down or suspend them now and press 'Retry' to continue."
No VM instance was running/open...