No problem, Jim, glad to help. It looks like 386 binaries landed on your PPC 
system from the pyinstaller.

> On Mar 19, 2014, at 20:52, Jim Durham <jim...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for quick reply, Dave. 
> 
> Here is the output from using 'file' on the original file:
> 
> XOlog0.8.9: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), 
> dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.18, 
> BuildID[sha1]=0x0b7ec69824a1ff621c8e697a32d12f1cf42274c6, not stripped
> 
> and from the modified binary:
> 
> XOlog0.8.9mod: ELF 32-bit MSB executable, Intel 80386 - invalid byte order, 
> (SYSV), statically linked, stripped
> 
> Obviously, that was a disaster.  
> 
> -- Jim
> 
> 
>> On 03/19/2014 05:53 PM, d...@appleside.org wrote:
>> What is the output of the ‘file’ command on the original unmodified binary 
>> and also on the modified binary?  Can you send along the results for both?  
>> Thanks!
>> Dave
>> 
>> 
>> From: Jim Durham
>> Sent: ‎Wednesday‎, ‎March‎ ‎19‎, ‎2014 ‎1‎:‎02‎ ‎PM
>> To: PowerPC List Debian
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I have Debian 7.4 working fairly well on a 20 inch iMac G5 .  Python seems
>> to work OK,  except that pyinstaller produces a binary file that the shell
>> refuses to execute.
>> 
>> Looking at the file with beav (hex editor) I find that the header 
>> differs from
>> other files that do execute.  I have 'fixed' these bytes, but still no 
>> joy on
>> executing the file.
>> 
>> Its been a long time since I hacked on file headers,etc, so any thoughts 
>> or help would
>> be appreciated.
>> 
>> Here is what the shell says:
>> 
>> bash: ./XOlog0.8.9: cannot execute binary file
>> 
>> 
>> And a dump of the file's header from beav.
>> 
>> 
>>            0: 7F 45 4C 46 01 01 01 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 
>> .ELF............
>>           10: 02 00 03 00 01 00 00 00  80 96 04 08 34 00 00 00 
>> ............4...
>>           20: 60 6C 01 00 00 00 00 00  34 00 20 00 07 00 28 00 
>> `l......4. ...(.
>>           30: 25 00 22 00 06 00 00 00  34 00 00 00 34 80 04 08 
>> %.".....4...4...
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Jim
>> 
>> 
>> 
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