On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 1:25 PM, Christoph Biedl < debian.a...@manchmal.in-ulm.de> wrote:
> tags 863488 moreinfo unreproducible > thanks > > Ben Hildred wrote... > > > A recent upgrade has rendered file just about usless as it is only able > to > > identify text in the most limited sense. > > Works for me: > > > for example: > > $ file /usr/bin/file > > /etc/magic, 4: Warning: using regular magic file `/usr/share/misc/magic' > > /usr/bin/file: data > > /usr/bin/file: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 > (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib/ld-linux.so.2, for GNU/Linux > 2.6.32, BuildID[sha1]=2f833ab1ff58c9e0ae5801481a0dff1da286f30b, stripped > > that's more like it. > (see the release notes why it's not "executable" any longer) > > It hasn't been an issue. > > or: > > $ file /usr/share/doc/file/* > > /etc/magic, 4: Warning: using regular magic file `/usr/share/misc/magic' > > /usr/share/doc/file/changelog.Debian.gz: data > > /usr/share/doc/file/changelog.gz: data > > /usr/share/doc/file/copyright: ASCII text > > /usr/share/doc/file/README.Debian: ASCII text > > /usr/share/doc/file/README.gz: data > > Results in the expected output. > > What is in /usr/share/misc/magic, and where did the file(s) come > from? > > it is a symbolic link to '../file/magic' which is/usr/share/file/magic an empty directory. There is also /usr/share/file/magic.mgc which is a symbolic link pointing to ../../lib/file/magic.mgc. If I create a symbolic link from /usr/share/misc/magic.mgc to /usr/lib/file/magic.mgc it starts working again. > Christoph > -- -- Ben Hildred Automation Support Services
