Comment 14 for bug 1509729

A variant of trinkity's solution finally worked for me:

I deleted LD_LIBRARY_PATH.conf file in /etc/ld.so.conf.d

and then executed the command $ sudo ldconfig

This worked, and VMware Player still seems to work as well.

I had tried altering the contents of that file before, but I may not have reconfigured ld before checking, and that may have been the problem.