[CLUE-Cert] "No such file or directory"

[William C. Phye]

Hi, Ben.

Your RH7 package manager knew about WP application [due to formal install
procedure]; however, KRUD didn't because of dump reload; therefore, suggest you
see if KRUD has some thing like dpkg (Debian Package Manager {dselect [U]pdate,
[S]elect, [I]nstall, [C]onfigure}) which can be used to inform package manager
of an application that now exists, but didn't go throw from install procedure.
Much like RPM's are transportable between distros, maybe dpkg is too - worth a
try.

You might take a look at /sbin/update [started from /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit on
most systems].  Disk buffers are maintained every few seconds; however, it is
possible, your dump didn't 'dump' system buffers and along with dumped
applications or RH7 and KRUD systems buffers didn't mesh.  And, ultimately,
since it [system] didn't have them available, it couldn't restore them to
KRUD.  Just a guess a guess.

Regardless,  good luck.

Bill

> Hi,
> I just loaded the KRUD distro (fresh), replacing my production load of RH7,
> thinking I would get the latest fixes, etc.
>
> Well, I had made a dump of my RH7 install, which had WordPerfect 8 (and
> Star Office).  I restored both of these trees from the dump (/usr/local/wp8
> and /usr/local/office51).  Star Office starts up fine.
>
> However, WordPerfect is another story:  when I go into the directory where
> the binary resides (/usr/local/wp8/wpbin/) and execute it (by typing ./xwp)
> I get this error:
>
> bash: ./xwp: No such file or directory
>
> I get the same error when I type /usr/local/wp8/wpbin/xwp)
>
> Here's the directory listing:
>
> [ben at k0yds wpbin]$ ls -l
> total 11600
> -rw-r--r--    1 ben      ben          2494 Oct 18 10:59 README
> -rw-r--r--    1 ben      ben          2929 Oct 18 10:59 README.address
> -rw-r--r--    1 ben      ben          3265 Oct 18 10:59 README.copy
> -rw-r--r--    1 ben      ben          1161 Oct 18 10:59 README.errata
> -rw-r--r--    1 ben      ben           687 Oct 18 10:59 README.icon
> -rw-r--r--    1 ben      ben          1777 Oct 18 10:59 README.install
> -rw-r--r--    1 ben      ben         13604 Oct 18 10:59 README.lic
> -rw-r--r--    1 ben      ben           246 Oct 18 10:59 README.support
> -rw-r--r--    1 ben      ben          1411 Oct 18 10:59 README.wpmagic
> -rw-r--r--    1 ben      ben          1994 Oct 18 10:59 README.wpsahelp
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 ben      ben          2488 Oct 18 10:59 wpmerge
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 ben      ben       8009812 Oct 18 10:59 xwp
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 ben      ben       3758592 Oct 18 10:59 xwpdraw
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 ben      ben         31760 Oct 18 10:59 xwpsahlp
> [ben at k0yds wpbin]$
>
> World executable.
>
> Same problem if I try to start it as root.
>
> Interestingly, if I just type xwp, I get the expected "command not found":
> [ben at k0yds wpbin]$ xwp
> bash: xwp: command not found
>
> The version of bash appears to be the same in this distro as it was in the
> previous RH7 installation, which worked fine:
> GNU bash, version 2.04.11(1)-release (i386-redhat-linux-gnu)
>
> Any thoughts?  What am I missing?
>
> Is there a lesson in here somewhere about inodes and filenames?
>
> --
> Ben Roe
> Denver, Colorado USA
> http://members.tde.com/ben
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