Peter Seebach wrote:

> So, I'm updating a system.  System is i386.  Kernel is NetBSD 1.6K.  Binaries
> are:
> 	/bin/sh: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV),
> 	dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
> 
> /bin/sh says "/bin/sh: Exec format error".
> 
> The kernel has EXEC_AOUT and EXEC_ELF32.
> 
> Furthermore, 'file /usr/bin/file' gives the same output as 'file /bin/sh'.
> 
> Is this likely to have to do with the new /lib shared libraries?  'ldd'
> succeeds on both /usr/bin/file and /bin/sh; /bin/sh points to /lib/libc.so.12,
> whereas /usr/bin/file points to /usr/lib/libc.so.12.  Both files exist, and
> look "fine" - in fact, /usr/lib/libc.so.12 is itself a link to
> /lib/libc.so.12.91.
> 
> To make it weirder, /usr/src is NFS-mounted.  On the NFS server (also NetBSD
> 1.6K/i386), "/usr/src/bin/sh/obj/sh" works.  On the client, it gets "Exec
> format error".
> 
> The only difference I see is that the client doesn't have COMPAT_SVR4, but
> it shouldn't need that, should it?

Missing /libexec/ld.elf_so ?

Simon.
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