Well, in case someone runs against similar weird problems. ~ As Raphaël hinted, their root seems to relate to my starting Linux/Debian/knoppix as: ~ knoppix64 ... ~ which I think it is what I should do right? ~ $ uname -a Linux Microknoppix 3.3.7 #38 SMP PREEMPT Tue May 22 06:21:01 CEST 2012 i686 GNU/Linux
$ uname -m i686 $ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 64 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 ~ for some reason that is still not totally clear to me, starting using a 32-bit baseline: ~ knoppix ... ~ seems to be fine and of course I also used the 32-bit version of the JVM ~ thanks lbrtchx ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ $ which bash /bin/bash $ bash --version GNU bash, version 4.2.20(1)-release (i486-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. $ echo $PATH /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games $ export JAVA_HOME="/media/sdb1/inst/sw/jdk/x86/1.7.0_07" $ export PATH="$JAVA_HOME"/bin:$PATH $ echo $PATH /media/sdb1/inst/sw/jdk/x86/1.7.0_07/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games $ which java /media/sdb1/inst/sw/jdk/x86/1.7.0_07/bin/java $ java -version java version "1.7.0_07" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_07-b10) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 23.3-b01, mixed mode) $ which bash /bin/bash ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ On 10/15/12, Raphael Cauderlier <cauderl...@crans.org> wrote: > Albretch Mueller <lbrt...@gmail.com> writes: > >> I am having problems which I think may relate to an actually dying >> disk, but I am not sure. Sometimes I have thought it is because of a >> dying disk and then we have realized it wasn't. >> ~ >> I basically installed java and recursively copied the files to >> another directory. 'which' and 'ls' are telling me the file is where I >> put and declared it in the PATH, but the JVM doesn't find it >> ~ >> What do you think is wrong with the picture? >> ~ >> thanks >> lbrtchx >> ~ >> $ echo $PATH >> /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games >> >> $ export JAVA_HOME="/media/sdd1/jdk/x64/jdk1.7.0_07" >> >> $ export PATH="$JAVA_HOME"/bin:$PATH >> >> $ echo $PATH >> /media/sdd1/jdk/x64/jdk1.7.0_07/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games >> >> $ which java >> /media/sdd1/jdk/x64/jdk1.7.0_07/bin/java >> >> $ java -version >> bash: /media/sdd1/jdk/x64/jdk1.7.0_07/bin/java: No such file or directory >> > > I just had a similar problem and solved it using the solution from > https://workbooks.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/java-no-such-file-or-directory-on-linux/ > (installing the package ia32-libs) > > I hope this helps. > > -- > Raphaël Cauderlier > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/vt2lif7vi3b....@zamok.crans.org > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAFakBwg0x2zvY8wp4V2QmD8m6nShhf92buqPPqo-A4m=H=d...@mail.gmail.com