[rhn-users] Re: cannot execute binary file

[Herta Van den Eynde]

On 06/03/07, Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> wrote:
> On 05Mar2007 22:36, Pete Masse <pete at chemistry.montana.edu> wrote:
> | I've run into some trouble lately when installing software on RHES ES 4
> | EM64 .  Newly installed executables will not execute.  Even when including
> | the entire path, I still get the error message "Cannot execute binary
> | file".  Permissions are 755, file is owned by root and belongs to the root
> | group.  I tried starting it from a non privileged user and still the same.
> |  SELinux has been disabled in an effort to try and debug this.  The
> | executables I am talking about are supposed to be compiled for 64 bit
> | Linux.
> |
> | This has happened to two different executable files so far, and it seems
> | to me that I remember there being some security attribute that will not
> | allow executable files to run just anywhere or something like that.
>
> What does the "file" command say about these files,
> and what does it say about a working binary file?
>
> What does "ldd" report about these files, too? Maybe you're missing a
> library.
> --
> Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> DoD#743
> http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/

Also check the permissions on the directory, and verify that the
filesystem isn't mounted 'noexec'.

Kind regards,

Herta