Issue with VSTS Agent on Ubuntu – Failed to initialize CoreCLR, HRESULT: 0x80131500

Posted on 10/12/201621/04/2018 by kvaes

So today I was installing an VSTS agent on Ubuntu and I got the following error message ;

Failed to initialize CoreCLR, HRESULT: 0x80131500

I received this error message when trying to run the “config.sh” command ;

So how to fix this? Apparently the agent has a hard dependency towards “libicu52”. By default my system (ubuntu 16.04 LTS) had libicu55 on it. You can find the “old” package on the following location. And install it?

wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/i/icu/libicu52_52.1-3ubuntu0.8_amd64.deb

sudo dpkg -i libicu52_52.1-3ubuntu0.8_amd64.deb

And that did the trick!

Have fun with your Linux CI/CD pipelines now! 😀

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8 thoughts on “Issue with VSTS Agent on Ubuntu – Failed to initialize CoreCLR, HRESULT: 0x80131500”

mahesh says:

22/02/2017 at 00:29

You saved my day. I was struggling on this for hours. Thanks for posting

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1. kvaes says:
  
  22/02/2017 at 16:15
  
  You are welcome! Good to hear it saved your day. 😉
  
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vikashvikram says:

12/04/2017 at 06:42

Thanks man. This solved my issue. There was one difference thought – rather than using libicu52_52.1-3ubuntu0.4_amd64.deb, I had to use libicu52_52.1-3ubuntu0.5_amd64.deb since the former was not available.

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1. kvaes says:
  
  12/04/2017 at 08:25
  
  Thanks for the feedback!
  
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McTalian says:

21/08/2017 at 17:15

Helped me out a bunch. Thank you!

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Soundar says:

19/12/2017 at 04:05

Thanks it helped but now It is libicu52_52.1-3ubuntu0.7_amd64.deb for Ubuntu 17.10

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Simon J.K. Pedersen says:

21/04/2018 at 13:53

The link doesn’t work anymore but you can find alternatives here https://packages.ubuntu.com/uk/trusty-updates/amd64/libicu52/download

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1. kvaes says:
  
  21/04/2018 at 14:16
  
  Thanks for the info. Updated!
  
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