On Thursday 02 April 2015 08:23:32 Petter Adsen wrote: > On Thu, 2 Apr 2015 08:08:49 -0400 > > Gene Heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote: > > On Thursday 02 April 2015 05:33:40 Darac Marjal wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 05:16:37AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > wordwrap off so as not to rip up long lines. > > > > > > > > > > > > Fun & games but not S&G. Network-Manager had the last word when > > > > I excised that piece of insanity, the SOB zeroed out the eth0 > > > > settings in /etc/network/interfaces. Bad dog, no biscuit from > > > > me. > > > > > > > > All discovered and I think fixed as I appear to have restored > > > > networking now. > > > > > > > > All triggered by discovering that the reason I was into swap all > > > > the time was that for the last 12 days I had been running a 32 > > > > bit rtai kernel which is NOT PAE, seems I need to edit the > > > > default number in /boot/grub/grub.cnf, it is not pointing at a > > > > 64 bit 3.2.0-4amd64 vmlinuz. That discovery in turn triggered > > > > by firefox spitting out a tummy ache on start attempts. > > > > > > > > I renamed the firefox script in /usr/bin/ which was actually > > > > running iceweasel to /usr/bin/firefux, then made a symlink from > > > > > > > > /home/gene/bin/firefox-37/firefox/firefox from /usr/bin/firefox. > > > > > > > > So, rebooted to a true 64 bit kernel, but 64 bit firefox refuses > > > > to run: gene@coyote:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/firefox > > > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 41 Apr 2 04:03 /usr/bin/firefox -> > > > > /home/gene/bin/firefox-37/firefox/firefox Which is correct. But > > > > First try it like the renamed script does it: > > > > gene@coyote:~$ firefox "$@" > > > > bash: /usr/bin/firefox: No such file or directory > > > > Then try w/o the argument. > > > > gene@coyote:~$ firefox > > > > bash: /usr/bin/firefox: No such file or directory > > > > > > > > Its 5am, and I don't seem to have even one eye open > > > > simultaineously... > > > > > > > > The firefox binary itself > > > > gene@coyote:~$ ls -l bin/firefox-37/firefox/firefox > > > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 gene gene 147776 Mar 26 23:51 > > > > bin/firefox-37/firefox/firefox > > > > > > Often, in this situation, it's not the file you're thinking of > > > which doesn't exist. When executing a binary file, the kernel will > > > return the same error (ENOENT) for all files necessary to start > > > the binary. In other words, you can't immediately tell if it's the > > > binary which doesn't exist, or the libraries it's linked to. > > > > > > So, as you know the binary exists, run "ldd /usr/bin/firefox" to > > > see which libraries it's linked against and see if they all exist. > > > > gene@coyote:~/bin/firefox-37/firefox$ sudo ldd /usr/bin/firefox > > [sudo] password for gene: > > not a dynamic executable > > Run it on the binary itself, not the symlink. > > Petter
And it still claims "not an executable". Does using squeeze to unpack a tarball screw things up this bad And iceweasel has recovered. No history but prefs are intact ???? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201504020924.19609.ghesk...@wdtv.com
