Re: `ls` shows file, `bash` says "No such file" ???

[Mike Kupfer <m.kupfer@acm.org>]

Tom Roche wrote:

> me@it ~ $ /usr/local/share/firefox-3.6.28/firefox-bin
> bash: /usr/local/share/firefox-3.6.28/firefox-bin: No such file or directory
> [127]me@it ~ $ lsalh /usr/local/share/firefox-3.6.28/firefox-bin
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 44K Mar  6  2012 /usr/local/share/firefox-3.6.28/firefox-bin
[...]
> FWIW, /usr/local/share/firefox-3.6.28/firefox-bin is 32-bit, while the
> rest of the box is 64-bit. I don't see how that could cause *this*
> problem, but that's the only thing unusual about
> /usr/local/share/firefox-3.6.28/firefox-bin (of which I'm aware).

I ran into this issue (with a different binary, on Ubuntu 12.04) a week
or two ago, and it was in fact the mismatch between 32-bit and 64-bit.
So try installing the 64-bit FF, and you should be much happier.

The error message from bash is... unfortunate, to say the least.
(Though I don't know if it's actually bash's fault.)

mike