I just ran it myself inside and outside the sh4 chroot. The logging output is the same, with the exception of the final line. Something is happening once it's decided it's elf; looking at file_tryelf, my guess is the fstat call is failing[0].
[0] http://sources.debian.net/src/file/1:5.31-1/src/readelf.c/#L1609 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1716767 Title: file(1) fails with "Invalid argument" on qemu-sh4-user Status in QEMU: New Bug description: We recently discovered that file(1) fails on qemu-sh4-user when running on an ELF file: (sid_sh4)root@vs94:/# file /bin/bash /bin/bash: ERROR: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Renesas SH, version 1 (SYSV) error reading (Invalid argument) (sid_sh4)root@vs94:/# Running with "-d" yields more output: (sid_sh4)root@vs94:/# file -d /bin/bash 2>&1 | tail 322: >> 7 byte&,=97,"(ARM)"] 0 == 97 = 0 mget(type=1, flag=0, offset=7, o=0, nbytes=863324, il=0, nc=1) mget/96 @7: \000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\002\000*\000\001\000\000\000\250\317A\0004\000\000\000L(\r\000\027\000\000\0004\000 \000\n\000(\000\032\000\031\000\006\000\000\0004\000\000\0004\000@\0004\000@\000@\001\000\000@\001\000\000\005\000\000\000\004\000\000\000\003\000\000\000t\001\000\000t\001@\000t\001@\000\023\000\000 323: >> 7 byte&,=-1,"(embedded)"] 0 == 18446744073709551615 = 0 [try softmagic 1] [try elf -1] /bin/bash: ERROR: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Renesas SH, version 1 (SYSV) error reading (Invalid argument) (sid_sh4)root@vs94:/# It seems that the comparison above has a bogus (overflown?) value. On actual hardware, it works: root@tirpitz:~> file /bin/bash /bin/bash: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Renesas SH, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib/ld-linux.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=4dd0e4281755827d8bb6686fd481f8c80ea73e9a, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped root@tirpitz:~> I have uploaded a chroot with Debian unstable which allows to reproduce the issue: > https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/sid-sh4-sbuild.tar.gz To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1716767/+subscriptions
