On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 02:43:53PM -0500, Michael wrote:
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> Hello,
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> >Hmm, now I get...
> >Syntax error: ")" unexpected
> >Apparently ktrace thinks it's a script for some reason. Odd.
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> ... and kdump says this:
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>    819 ktrace   EMUL  "netbsd"
>    819 ktrace   RET   ktrace 0
>    819 ktrace   CALL  
> execve(0xffffffffffffc696,0xffffffffffffc490,0xffffffffffffc4a0)
>    819 ktrace   NAMI  "/emul/svr4_32/usr/lib/opera/8.0-20050104.1/opera"
>    819 ktrace   RET   execve -1 errno 8 Exec format error
>    819 ktrace   CALL  
> execve(0x405c0220,0xffffffffffffbe40,0xffffffffffffc4a0)
>    819 ktrace   NAMI  "/bin/sh"
>    819 ktrace   NAMI  "/libexec/ld.elf_so"
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> ok, so execve didn't recognize the format for some reason. Any idea 
> what could cause that?
> 

There was a similar problem a while ago, think it was the same list.
Then it was sparc executables (32 bit) on sparc64. It turned out to be
broken symlinks from the emul binaries or libraries, I forget which. I
think the solution was chroot or changing the symlinks.

Hope this helps,
Christer

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Christer O. Andersson
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