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SubjectRe: 2.2.2 NFS problems (in particular executing a.out programs)
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Jim Bourne <jbourne@affinity-systems.ab.ca> writes:

> On 5 Mar 1999, Marc Lefranc wrote:
>
> > Hello all!
> >
> > 1008 $ /usr/local/lib/texmf/bin/i486-linux/X11/R5/xdvi
> > bash: /usr/local/lib/texmf/bin/i486-linux/X11/R5/xdvi: cannot execute binary file
> > 1009 $ file /usr/local/lib/texmf/bin/i486-linux/X11/R5/xdvi
> > /usr/local/lib/texmf/bin/i486-linux/X11/R5/xdvi: Linux/i386 demand-paged executable (ZMAGIC), stripped
> >
> > The error is accompagnied by two lines in /var/log/messages:
> >
> > Mar 5 10:16:47 platon kernel: N_TXTOFF < BLOCK_SIZE. Please convert binary.
> > Mar 5 10:16:47 platon modprobe: can't locate module binfmt-0064
>
> Try adding the line
> alias binfmt-0064 binfmt_aout
> to /etc/conf.modules (or modules.conf, whatever) and depmod -a if you have
> a.out support compiled as a module. Should work then.

The funny thing is that, as I wrote in my original message,
binfmt_aout is compiled in the kernel, not as a module (the line above
the binfmt-0064 one comes directly from binfmt-aout.c). I nevertheless
added the line to conf.modules just to see, and the message is still
there. I guess this line is in fact due to binfmt-aout failing, and
that this failure is misinterpreted as a module not being there.

I take advantage of this reply to say that the same executable runs
fine if copied to a local disk.

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Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, Atomes, Molecules
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