Re: Can't execute binary?

[Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org>]

On 21/02/13 11:30, Thierry Chatelet wrote:
> The Thursday 21 February 2013 12:23:44, Tony van der Hoff wrote :
>> Hi,
>> I've just installed wheezy/KDE on a spare machine, to see what we're
>> getting. All seems OK, apart from one mystery:
>>
>> I installed a copy of Firefox-18.0.2 in /usr/local, with a symlink
>> pointing to it, as I have done in Squeeze and earlier for years.
>>
>> Typing "/usr/local/firefox/firefox" always used to start it with no
>> problem. However, on the wheezy box, I'm getting:
>> ---
>> tony@tony-dlt:~$ /usr/local/firefox/firefox
>> bash: /usr/local/firefox/firefox: cannot execute binary file
>> ---
>>
>> Well, WTF, as they say. Does anyone know of a change that causes this?
>>
>> Cheers, Tony
> 
> Au hazard: un problème de permission??
> Thierry
> 
Merci pour le suggestion, mais je crois que non.

The permissions are identical to those on my squeeze setup:
tony@tony-dlt:~$ ls -l /usr/local/firefox/firefox*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 99408 Feb  1 16:33 /usr/local/firefox/firefox
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 99416 Feb  1 16:33 /usr/local/firefox/firefox-bin

I'm in staff group, but that shouldn't matter.


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