On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 04:24:44PM +0200, Admar Schoonen wrote: > Hi > > A weird thing happened today. This morning, my Sun Ultra 5, running > debian unstable, booted fine like it always did. I upgraded the system > since it was a week old. A few hours later I had to reboot since a > process was misbehaving and couldn't be killed - not even with kill > -KILL. When the open boot had passed, it suddenly said 'The file just > loaded does not appear to be executable'. Booting with 'boot disk0:1' > gave the same message (while I am sure that was the right boot disk). > > I decided to do a netboot since I had a woody netboot image laying > around somewhere. I mounted the root disk, chrooted into it, downloaded > silo 1.4.8-1 (the latest in unstable - same as in testing), and > reinstalled it. After that, the system booted again like nothing > happened. > > I am sure I didn't upgrade my kernel today and I'm quite sure silo > wasn't upgraded either, since silo in testing is the same as silo in > unstable. Is there somebody here who can tell me what was going on?
Try to find out which program did report "The file just load does not appear to be executable" > > Best regards > > Admar Geert Stappers
