Re: Linux emulation: "Inappropriate file type or format" error

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Jul 7,  8:29pm, mayuresh%acm.org@localhost (Mayuresh) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: Linux emulation: "Inappropriate file type or format" error

| On Sat, Jun 09, 2012 at 03:15:56PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
| > >If I mount a copy of the live cd's root system under /emul/linux (or
| > >elsewhere) and try to run (say) bash from this copy, I get aforementioned
| > >error.
| > 
| > /emul/linux is special. Try making it point to you cdrom's root.
| 
| (A small update on this thread is I am now trying opensuse 12.1 instead of
| 11.3 when I started this thread.)
| 
| Yes, I did the same - soft linking /emul/linux to suse's dump. That's when
| I got above error.
| 
| On the contrary, now I realize that, letting /emul/linux continue to point
| to /usr/pkg/emul/linux, if I directly run the binaries from the dump, I am
| able to do so - at least a few binaries (like bash).
| 
| However trying to chroot to the dump still draws the same error.
| 
| Further, instead of chrooting, if I set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH to dump's lib
| and usr/lib, I can run even more of the programs from the dump, though
| most programs don't find the .so files as the minor version suffix that
| the binary expects doesn't match with the available so files. (Wonder why
| a dump of a working SuSe cd should have such mismatches. Does Linux loader
| salvage such situations and manage to load a nearly matching .so?)
| 
| 
| Now if I manually soft link the libraries, things move further, though
| obviously it's difficult to go on manually soft linking like that.
| 
| 
| 
| Gone this far. Would highly appreciate some further insights.

You really need to make the the linux library paths appear to be to start
from /emul/linux (or if you are running 32 bit binaries on 64 bit hosts
/emul/linux32). The emulation system depends on it to work properly.

christos