Re: file not found - hardware, fs, or driver problem?

[Richard Lyons <richard@the-place.net>]

On Tuesday,  6 December 2005 at  1:11:32 +0000, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Richard Lyons wrote:
> 
> >
> >The problem is that installed software sometimes refuses to run, giving
> >'file not found', in spite of the fact that the file in question will ls
> >normally, permissions are ok, etc, and I can even cat the file.  This
> >happens only with certain files, for example two separate attempts to
> >install qcad professional.  Other software, loaded via normal Debian
> >routes, runs apparently normally.
> >
> >Any suggestions to how to proceed?
> 
> 
> Can you post the output from your attempt to run the software?

Here is an example:
    $ qcad-2.1.0.0-rc1-1-prof.linux.lcpp5.x86$ ls
    bin doc examples fonts library patterns qcad qm README scripts
    $ ./qcad
    bash: ./qcad: No such file or directory

showing that it even happens when in the same diectory. And, yes, the
file qcad is world executable.

-- 
richard