Re: `ls` shows file, `bash` says "No such file" ???
On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 10:25 PM, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> For background on my problem (and why I very much need to solve it),
> see http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=190&t=166506&p=855700#p855700
>
> But the essence of the problem appears to be
>
> 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
> me@it ~ $ sudo /usr/local/share/firefox-3.6.28/firefox-bin
> sudo: unable to execute /usr/local/share/firefox-3.6.28/firefox-bin: No such file or directory
> me@it ~ $ groups
> me sudo staff lpadmin
>
> How is it possible that `ls` can list a file, but `bash` says "No such file"?
>
> Note that everything else seems to work on this box, which FWIW is
>
> me@it ~ $ uname -a
> Linux it 3.11-2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.11.8-1 (2013-11-13) x86_64 GNU/Linux
> me@it ~ $ cat /etc/debian_version
> jessie/sid
>
> so it's not like the box is "just broken." 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 don't think that jessie still has ia32-libs.
Could it be that the old firefox cannot be used with the new multi-arch way?
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