Re: Problem while starting binary...-No such file or directory

Mattthew D. Pitts (mpitts@suite224.net)
Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:05:47 -0500


Guys,

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> From: Michael Mess <michael@kawo2.rwth-aachen.de>
> To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: Problem while starting binary...-No such file or directory
> Date: Tuesday, February 16, 1999 12:54 PM
>
> Hi!
>
> When I try to start the netscape-binary (netscape 4.5) I only get the
> message "No such file or directory".
> Is this a (known) kernel bug?
> It seems that strace cannot exec the file at all. But it doesn't seem to
> be a problem of the PATH environement.
> But why does it say "No such file or directory"?
>
> Greetings, Michael
>
> <test@michael>:~/ns45/communicator-v45.x86-unknown-linux2.0/netsc>dir
> total 21833
> -r--r--r-- 1 test users 16154 Oct 13 19:09 LICENSE
> -r--r--r-- 1 test users 794439 Oct 13 19:27 Netscape.ad
> -r--r--r-- 1 test users 16213 Oct 13 22:15 README
> -r--r--r-- 1 test users 4674 Oct 18 1994 XKeysymDB
> -r--r--r-- 1 test users 10431 Oct 13 22:16 bookmark.htm
> drwxr-xr-x 3 test users 1024 Oct 13 22:17 java/
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 test users 38613 Oct 13 22:16 libjsd.so*
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 test users 13642 Oct 13 22:16
> libnullplugin-dynMotif.so*
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 test users 5380 Oct 13 22:16 movemail*
> drwxr-xr-x 2 test users 1024 Oct 13 22:16 movemail-src/
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 test users 12179036 Oct 13 22:17 netscape*
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 test users 9175556 Oct 13 22:16
> netscape-dynMotif*
This looks like a reference to Motif to me. Michael, have you tried
downloading and installing Lestif? It may solve your problem.

Matthew D. Pitts
mpitts@suite224.net

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