Eduardo Horvath wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Alexander Strauss wrote:
> 
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I've setup a Sparc Classic with Solaris emulation as described in
> > compat_svr4(8) - the Solaris files are located in /emul/svr4, and my
> > kernel build includes the options "COMPAT_SVR4" and "EXEC_ELF32".
> > Anyway, if I try to execute a simple Solaris 7 program, the kernel fails
> > to execute it:
> >
> > alex@modena:/mnt/bin:(5)> ./less
> > ./less: Exec format error. Binary file not executable.
> > alex@modena:/mnt/bin:(6)>
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> 
> Make sure it's a 32-bit ELF executable and not 64-bit ELF:
> 
>         file ./less
> 
> You cannot run 64-bit binaries on a 32-bit machine.
> 
> If that checks out, then try ldd to make sure all the libraries can be
> found and ktrace to find out where it's dying.
> 
> If it dies inside one execve then try using objdump on it to dump the ELF
> headers.
> 
> Eduardo Horvath


alex@modena:/tmp:(17)> file /mnt/bin/less
/mnt/bin/less: ELF 32-bit MSB executable, SPARC, version 1, dynamically
linked (uses shared libs), not stripped
alex@modena:/tmp:(18)> ldd /mnt/bin/less
ldd: /mnt/bin/less: not a dynamic executable
alex@modena:/tmp:(19)> ktrace /mnt/bin/less
/mnt/bin/less: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
alex@modena:/tmp:(20)> objdump --section-headers /mnt/bin/less

/mnt/bin/less:     file format elf32-sparc

Sections:
Idx Name          Size      VMA       LMA       File off  Algn
  0 .interp       00000011  000100d4  000100d4  000000d4  2**0
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
  1 .hash         00000e1c  000100e8  000100e8  000000e8  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
  2 .dynsym       00001bc0  00010f04  00010f04  00000f04  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
  3 .dynstr       00001f47  00012ac4  00012ac4  00002ac4  2**0
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
  4 .SUNW_version 00000040  00014a0c  00014a0c  00004a0c  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
  5 .rela.bss     00000018  00014a4c  00014a4c  00004a4c  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
  6 .rela.plt     0000030c  00014a64  00014a64  00004a64  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
  7 .text         0000f59c  00014d70  00014d70  00004d70  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE
  8 .init         0000001c  0002430c  0002430c  0001430c  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE
  9 .fini         00000014  00024328  00024328  00014328  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE
 10 .rodata       000045c3  00024340  00024340  00014340  2**3
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
 11 .got          00000020  00038904  00038904  00018904  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
 12 .plt          00000340  00038924  00038924  00018924  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, CODE
 13 .dynamic      000000c0  00038c64  00038c64  00018c64  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
 14 .data         00000a64  00038d28  00038d28  00018d28  2**3
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
 15 .ctors        00000008  0003978c  0003978c  0001978c  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
 16 .dtors        00000008  00039794  00039794  00019794  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
 17 .eh_frame     00000154  0003979c  0003979c  0001979c  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
 18 .bss          00001fa0  000398f0  000398f0  000198f0  2**3
                  ALLOC
 19 .comment      000009d6  00000000  00000000  0001e6ec  2**0
                  CONTENTS, READONLY
 20 .stab.index   00000024  00000000  00000000  0001f0c4  2**2
                  CONTENTS, READONLY, DEBUGGING
 21 .stab         0002af00  00000000  00000000  0001f0e8  2**2
                  CONTENTS, READONLY, DEBUGGING
 22 .stab.indexstr 00000171  00000000  00000000  0004a0c6  2**0
                  CONTENTS, READONLY, DEBUGGING
 23 .stabstr      00046c4e  00000000  00000000  0004a237  2**0
                  CONTENTS, READONLY, DEBUGGING

Interesting, eh? Probably a kernel configuration problem, but I couldn't
find one...same behaviour with any other Solaris binary I've tested.

Thanks,
Alex
-- 
best regards,
Alexander Strauss <strauss@astracom.net>