[TriLUG] Strange Linux (Ubuntu 9.04) Problem

[Brian Weaver]

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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