[OT?] "no such file or directory" bash etc (was Re: Solaris emulation in 2.4.19)

[Tim Ellis <Tim.Ellis@gamet.com>]

On 07 Oct 2002 14:08:09 +0100
Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk> wrote:

> > bash gives a variant on this error that makes it more obvious
> > that it isn't the shell having the problem, but the user program.
> 
> Not to detract from the main point, it can still be confusing in this
> context if the relevant bits aren't there, e.g. (with bash):
> 
> /usr/gnemul/solaris# mv usr/lib/ld.so.1 usr/lib/ld.so.1.x
> /usr/gnemul/solaris# bin/ls
> bash: bin/ls: No such file or directory

Hmmm. Your environment is different than mine? DebianWoody for SPARC? My
Mandrake9/Intel & DebianWoody/SPARC give the same behaviour I quote here:

v------------------------------------------------------------------
[time@ulterior 14:42:17 ~/tmp]
:) ./tmp.pl 
bash: ./tmp.pl: /a/b/c/perl: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
[time@ulterior 14:42:18 ~/tmp]
:) bash --version
GNU bash, version 2.05a.0(1)-release (sparc-unknown-linux-gnu)
Copyright 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
[time@ulterior 14:42:26 ~/tmp]
:) uname -a
Linux ulterior 2.4.18 #2 Thu Apr 11 14:37:17 EDT 2002 sparc64 unknown
^------------------------------------------------------------------

My bash for Solaris gives the confusing output you describe:

v------------------------------------------------------------------
[oracle@chubb ~/tmp]$ ./tmp.pl 
bash: ./tmp.pl: No such file or directory
[oracle@chubb ~/tmp]$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 2.03.0(1)-release (sparc-sun-solaris)
Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
^------------------------------------------------------------------

Also, when reproducing the error closer to how you did it (ie: shared lib
not available, it looks like this (copied/pasted from two separate
terminals, one logged in as root, other not):

v------------------------------------------------------------------
[root@ulterior 15:10:35 ~]
## mv  /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6.0 /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6.0.x
`/usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6.0' -> `/usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6.0.x'
 . . .
[time@ulterior 15:10:48 ~]
:) xterm
xterm: error while loading shared libraries: libSM.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[time@ulterior 15:11:28 ~]
:) cat /etc/ld.so.conf 
/usr/X11R6/lib
^------------------------------------------------------------------

The bash shell never figures in. Warning, purely conjecture: because I'm
using ld rather than LD_LIBRARY_PATH to locate my shared libraries? This
is, again, DebianWoody/SPARC.

As for the original topic, it is clear that "cat" couldn't find a library
it expected. I'd guess the "LD_LIBRARY_PATH" (not the ld.so.conf) isn't
set up properly. I suspect that when he ran the Solaris "sh", it was able
to source some profile that set the variable up correctly, whereas his
bash did not source the profile and thus didn't know where to find its
shared libraries.

-- 
Tim Ellis
Senior Database Architect
Gamet, Inc.