Failed to initialize CoreCLR, HRESULT: 0x80131500

Steps to reproduce

1. Download https://dotnetcli.blob.core.windows.net/dotnet/beta/Binaries/Latest/dotnet-dev-centos-x64.latest.tar.gz
2. Unpack tar file
3. Set DOTNET_HOME as unzipped folder. [usr/share/dotnet]
4. Change permission settings for unzipped folder dotnet
5. run dotnet -version

Expected behavior

Should give version number

Actual behavior

Gives error message Failed to initialize Failed to initialize CoreCLR, HRESULT: 0x80131500

Environment data

dotnet --version output: Failed to initialize CoreCLR, HRESULT: 0x80131500

[icebreaker]

You can find out what is missing by running:

find /opt/dotnet -name '*.so' -type f -print | xargs ldd | grep 'not found'

Replace /opt/dotnet with the directory you “un-tarred” the tar ball to.

[mmisztal1980]

This seems to have solved my issue 😕

wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/i/icu/libicu52_52.1-8ubuntu0.2_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i libicu52_52.1-8ubuntu0.2_amd64.deb