-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 08:30:13AM -0500, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > Here is a summary of what we now know: > > The only package in play now is > Cepstral_William_x86-64-linux_6.2.3.873.tar.gz > > > It was downloaded with wget from a link given to me from support at > cepstral.com. > > The package was downloaded to Debian Stretch on a dual boot system > where Arch Linux is the secondary OS. It was installed on Debian, and > after problems were discovered, was moved to Arch and installed there, > where it ran without error. > > The output of file for the swift.bin executable was identical on b oth > systems, and was: > > ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically > linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, > not stripped, with debug_info
Since the binary is the same, the difference must be in the environment. The first stop would be to check what's behind /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (background: that's the dynamic linker. Every executable has an "interpreter" which takes care of running it, e.g. for a shell executable it might be /bin/sh. For ELF executables, it's ld-linux*.so, with some variations depending on architecture). There is actually a man page for it (man 8 ld.so)). A second approach would be calling the program under strace and see whether there's some usable info, like so: strace -o <some.file.name.for.trace> -f <your.program> (the f means "follow" across forks: thus you might call the shell wrapper to let it do its setup). The output is very verbose, but since the program dies quickly, you can look at the end of the trace file for hints. Strace records the system calls and their results. Just ask away when stuck. > Sorry about earlier top-posts, I'm new to the list and have bad > habits. No worries. I just re-ordered things as posting styles got too mixed up :-) Regards - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAli138QACgkQBcgs9XrR2kYNJQCeKp4Ny0SP/xBp9LOUhG/7v2L8 ygIAn04KBtt/60arZ2Uex9xqP0pt46p3 =4bcY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
