[Techtalk] weirdness, not finding file that is there

[Chris Wilson]

Hi all,

On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Juliet Kemp wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 03:13:26PM -0800, Maria McKinley wrote:
>> billie:~/Linux# ls -l
>> total 92
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 86196 2006-01-27 11:42 vxaTool
>> billie:~/Linux# ./vxaTool
>> -bash: ./vxaTool: No such file or directory
>
> Have you tried copying the file somewhere else (either/both of in that
> directory, and in another one)?  I'm wondering whether the filename's
> got somehow corrupted, or there's a problem with the directory.  Doesn't
> seem enormously likely, but at least it's easy to rule out!

It's also possible that vxaTool is a script that starts with a shebang 
line (#!) that points to an interpreter that doesn't exist or isn't 
accessible or executable (use "less" to check that); or that it's an 
executable that refers to a library that doesn't exist (use "ldd" to check 
that).

Cheers, Chris.
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