ERROR: Activation library initialization failed: status 2

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Introduction

Trusted storage activation failed with ERROR: Activation library initialization failed: status 2 when running the appactutil utility to activate the licence on Linux platform, how to fix it. 

[fnpuser@fnp-ts-rhel8 x64_lsb]$ ./appactutil -a
ERROR: Activation library initialization failed: status 2
[fnpuser@fnp-ts-rhel8 x64_lsb]$ ./appactutil -view
ERROR: Activation library initialization failed: status 2

Troubleshooting Steps

 If this is the first time you have built a production toolkit then

1. On UNIX hosts, set the environment variable, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, to the current working directory before proceeding. 
2. Use a command similar to the following: $setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH .
3. If you are using Bash shell then # set LD_LIBRARY_PATH .

Ideally, this should fix the issue if not then give a try 

[fnpuser@fnp-ts-rhel8 x64_lsb]$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.:/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib
[fnpuser@fnp-ts-rhel8 x64_lsb]$ ./appactutil -v

Outcome

When run the ./appactutil -v
The following message is displayed if no fulfillment records are present:
No fulfillment records in trusted storage.

More Information

Also, to check FUSE is running ok, enter this command (as user, not root):-

[fnpuser@fnp-ts-rhel8 x64_lsb]$ ls -ld /dev/shm/FlexNetFs*/SFA

–> should see a file being listed

[fnpuser@fnp-ts-rhel8 x64_lsb]$ ls -ld /dev/shm/FlexNetFs*/SFA
drwxrwxrwx 2 stuarts eng 1024 Jul  3 10:42 /dev/shm/FlexNetFs.74689/SFA

–>shouldn't see this

[fnpuser@fnp-ts-rhel8 x64_lsb]$ ls -ld /dev/shm/FlexNetFs*/SFA
ls: cannot access /dev/shm/FlexNetFs*/SFA: No such file or directory