Re: 2.2.2 NFS problems (in particular executing a.out programs)

Jim Bourne (jbourne@affinity-systems.ab.ca)
Fri, 5 Mar 1999 08:24:34 -0700 (MST)


On 5 Mar 1999, Marc Lefranc wrote:

> Hello all!
>
> 1008 $ /usr/local/lib/texmf/bin/i486-linux/X11/R5/xdvi
> bash: /usr/local/lib/texmf/bin/i486-linux/X11/R5/xdvi: cannot execute binary file
> 1009 $ file /usr/local/lib/texmf/bin/i486-linux/X11/R5/xdvi
> /usr/local/lib/texmf/bin/i486-linux/X11/R5/xdvi: Linux/i386 demand-paged executable (ZMAGIC), stripped
>
> The error is accompagnied by two lines in /var/log/messages:
>
> Mar 5 10:16:47 platon kernel: N_TXTOFF < BLOCK_SIZE. Please convert binary.
> Mar 5 10:16:47 platon modprobe: can't locate module binfmt-0064

Try adding the line
alias binfmt-0064 binfmt_aout
to /etc/conf.modules (or modules.conf, whatever) and depmod -a if you have
a.out support compiled as a module. Should work then.

Jim

> Marc.

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