-bash: /bin/ls: cannot execute binary file

[Superconnected]

Hi,

after setting up the fht1000.pl with all ist required packages and
running the install scripts I have a very odd behavior. Somehow the
root password got screwed up which I managed to fix, but also some
commands (like ls, ps, etc.) are no longer working. I get the message:

NSL2:~# ps
-bash: /bin/ps: cannot execute binary file
NSL2:~#

NSL2:~# ls
-bash: /bin/ls: cannot execute binary file
NSL2:~#

Any Ideas?

Thanks and BR
Jens

[Matthias Urlichs]

Hi,

Superconnected:

> NSL2:~# ls
> -bash: /bin/ls: cannot execute binary file
> NSL2:~#
>

Yowch. You seem to have screwed up a shared library, probably
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (which should be a symlink to ld-#.#.#.so, where
#.#.# is the version of your C library).

You can test this by explicitly saying

/lib/ld-2.3.6.so /bin/ls

(or whatever that number is in your box). Since /bin/ls seems not to be
working, you can get the shell to tell you using "echo /lib/ld*so".

But, frankly: at this point, re-flashing the box might be the safer option.

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[Superconnected]

Thanks Matthias,

I tried

apt-get upgrade

yesterday night. It completly screwed up my NLSU2. I have no clue what
happened. So I start from scratch...

Cheers
Jens