On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 10:55:15AM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 04:41:05PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > > On 2014-12-22 04:10 +0100, Rob Owens wrote: > > > So I'm still not sure why /etc/init.d/mysql cannot find "dirname" and > > > "basename" when running at system boot, but it can find them when run > > > from a terminal after boot. > > > > Maybe you have a /bin/dirname executable whose interpreter is missing, > > e.g. it could be a 32-bit binary and you don't have libc6:i386 > > installed anymore. > > That's it! This system has a /bin/dirname as well as /usr/bin/dirname. > When I call /bin/dirname from a shell, I get "-bash: /bin/dirname: No > such file or directory". $ ls -l /bin/dirname -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13880 Jan 30 2007 /bin/dirname $ file /bin/dirname dirname: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.4.1, stripped Similar thing for /bin/basename and a bunch of other files that are present in both /bin and /usr/bin. For all the duplicates I've checked, the files in /bin are 32-bit and are old, while the files in /usr/bin are 64-bit and are recent. So I guess for now I'm going to move all these obsolete files into another directory and make sure the system works ok before I delete them for good. I'm not sure how this system ended up like this, but it's and old system that's been dist-upgraded many times as well as having the hard disk moved to different hardware. I checked Wheezy, Squeeze, and Lenny and the coreutils package doesn't put dirname or basename in /bin on any of those releases -- they go in /usr/bin. I wasn't able to go farther back than that. But 2007 is when Etch was released, and that was also the first Debian release I ever used. Sven, thanks for your help. Your tips got me heading down the right track. -Rob
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