Re: Wrong magic bytes - corrupted file?
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 07:40:00PM +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote: I am encountering == ldconfig: /usr/lib/libwins.so is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start. == from ldconfig. Everything seems however to work nicely. Some questions naturally arise: 1. What is the role of libwins.so? Normally files that are simply .so (without any extra version) under */lib/ are symlinks intended for build-time. Maybe this is merely a dandling link? What is the output of: ls -l /usr/lib/libwins.so And then again, you can check the magic directly: file /usr/lib/libwins.so 2. Should I simply download libwins.so in BIN from an FTP server, and put it there, to solve the problem? Is it part of some package? I get no hits for 'apt-file search /usr/lib/libwins.so' here (squeeze, amd64). -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best ICQ# 16849754 || friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Wrong magic bytes - corrupted file?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tzafrir Cohen tzaf...@cohens.org.il writes: On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 07:40:00PM +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote: I am encountering == ldconfig: /usr/lib/libwins.so is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start. == from ldconfig. Everything seems however to work nicely. Some questions naturally arise: 1. What is the role of libwins.so? Normally files that are simply .so (without any extra version) under */lib/ are symlinks intended for build-time. Maybe this is merely a dandling link? What is the output of: ls -l /usr/lib/libwins.so Not joyful: == # ls -l /usr/lib/libwins.so ls: cannot access /usr/lib/libwins.so: No such file or directory == Is it possible, or must this file have disappeared since last try? And then again, you can check the magic directly: file /usr/lib/libwins.so By the same mechanism, == # file /usr/lib/libwins.so /usr/lib/libwins.so: ERROR: cannot open `/usr/lib/libwins.so' (No such file or directory) == Note that I received this error when installing some packages. (I do not remember their names, sorry.) 2. Should I simply download libwins.so in BIN from an FTP server, and put it there, to solve the problem? Is it part of some package? I get no hits for 'apt-file search /usr/lib/libwins.so' here (squeeze, amd64). I do not know. I do not even know its role. I tried googling about it, but it did not show me anything interesting. Thanks. - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ - -- Don't try to teach a pig to sing. It doesn't work, and you'll annoy the pig. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAktlzCYACgkQM0LLzLt8MhyTCgCgo3xo7+D7k1FqYz64BEGYEK9m eVcAniyQx0oMDy8dx+LnSmhy49Qbe8Hj =G6Iq -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Wrong magic bytes - corrupted file?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I am encountering == ldconfig: /usr/lib/libwins.so is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start. == from ldconfig. Everything seems however to work nicely. Some questions naturally arise: 1. What is the role of libwins.so? 2. Should I simply download libwins.so in BIN from an FTP server, and put it there, to solve the problem? Thanks for any help. - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ - -- A woman's work is never done. (A man may work from sun to sun, but a woman's work is never done, meaning that a man's traditional role as breadwinner may keep him occupied from sun-up to sundown, but the traditional roles of a woman demand even longer hours of work.) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAktkfP4ACgkQM0LLzLt8MhzEngCfUlT2kX4qygATvyeBhb3ddy59 9h4AoJSNz9YxhJgGpq31DZj8RvP/xf+l =yZDX -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
