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

[Andrew Perrin <clists@perrin.socsci.unc.edu>]

On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Richard Lyons wrote:

> 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.


What's the output of:

ls -l qcad


and:

head -n3 qcad

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