[TriLUG] Strange Linux (Ubuntu 9.04) Problem

[Brian Weaver]

The system might be, is there an easy way to find out on the command
line? I don't have access to the physical system and I doubt the
person I'm working with would know either.

Thanks

-- Brian


On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Glenn Hennessee
<glenn.hennessee at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is it 64-bit linux? I found a page that describes what sounds like the very
> problem you're having as a 32-bit binary on a 64-bit os.
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5959926
>
> glenn
>
>
> Brian Weaver wrote:
>>
>> It's mode 0777 (-rwxrwxrwx)
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Glenn Hennessee
>> <glenn.hennessee at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> This is probably a silly thing to ask but is the execute bit set?
>>> glenn
>>>
>>>
>>> Brian Weaver wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> I'm kind of clueless with respect to a problem that a co-worker is
>>>> having with her linux system. I'm hoping some might have some clue.
>>>>
>>>> The system is a Ubuntu 9.04 system and they have a set of executables
>>>> from a vendor. I can see the files with ls, cat them to /dev/null,
>>>> read them with the 'file' command. However as soon as I try to execute
>>>> them or use the ldd command they blow up. For example
>>>>
>>>> root at system:/tmp/x# uname -a
>>>> Linux system.raritan.com 2.6.28-13-generic #45-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 30
>>>> 19:49:51 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
>>>> root at system:/tmp/x# file lmutil
>>>> lmutil: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV),
>>>> dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, stripped
>>>> root at system:/tmp/x# cat lmutil >/dev/null
>>>> root at system:/tmp/x# ls -l lmutil
>>>> -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1001868 2009-06-07 19:01 lmutil
>>>> root at system:/tmp/x# ldd lmutil
>>>> /usr/bin/ldd: line 117: ./lmutil: No such file or directory
>>>> root at system:/tmp/x# ./lmutil
>>>> -bash: ./lmutil: No such file or directory
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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>
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> Glenn Hennessee
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