Xfce Terminal can't execute bin file (after chmod)

I think this is a result of the move from bash to dash in Ubuntu. Try using a ¨sh¨ in front of the command. As an alternative,
http://www.real.com/realcom/R?href=http://forms.real.com/real/player/download.html?f=unix/RealPlayer11GOLD.deb
is now available. This is installed using
sudo dpkg -i RealPlayer11GOLD.deb

I can not reproduce this error since I do not have RealPlayer11GOLD.bin

Charlie Kravetz,

I use "sh" before command and can't open the file (sh /RealPLayer11GOLD.bin - can't open file) (sh ./RealPlayer11GOLD.bin - syntax error). After that I do a regular executing and RealPlayer11GOLD.bin can be executed. I confirmed it is working with "jre-6u10-linux-x64.bin" (Java x64) as well. Any idea how "sh" corrected the error?

Charlie Kravetz,

Also add on to that, apparently someone have similar issue that I previously suffered. I marked it as duplicate, could you please check it out?

Thanks for reporting this bug and any supporting documentation. Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark it as confirmed and let them handle it from here. Bug #121368 is a duplicate of this bug that was reported against Kubuntu 7.04. It is not a matter of not knowing how to run the flie as the system just does not recognize the .bin as existing. Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!

Still an issue in Jaunty or Karmic?

Out of two fresh install of Xubuntu Jaunty, the same bug happens once. However, the problem goes away after a couple days.

Changed back to confirmed, per the original reporter verification. Please don't ask the reporter to confirm again until a fix is released.

Charlie, what's up with you? The bug hasn't been touched for 9 months. I think it's quite natural to pick up the ball again, so don't hush-hush me, OK? Rather than letting this rot, some more analysis should be done. Especially since the way I read this report it's not a bug in xfce4-terminal, but elsewhere, likely in the .bin file itself.

Reassigning back to me until I completed some more bug triage. I'd like to know where to get this RealPlayer11GOLD.bin script, for example. I've got a hunch the script is faulty. If the script isn't, I'm still not convinced xfce4-terminal is the right place to look for a fix.

Howard, one more request. Can you please change to a virtual terminal (Ctrl+Alt+F2, switch back to the GUI with Ctrl+Alt+F7), log in and try executing the script there? What is the output? What does "echo $0" say?

Rolf,

After went into virtual terminal, I went ahead and try to execute the script. Here are the result. Keep in mind that I reinstall Xubuntu to reproduce the bug. I will try to include other bins from other sources later on.

trumpet-205@HT-Computer-Linux:~/Desktop$ dir
RealPlayer11GOLD.bin
trumpet-205@HT-Computer-Linux:~/Desktop$ ls -l
total 7632
-rwxr-xr-x 1 trumpet-205 trumpet-205 7815081 2009-08-01 20:41 RealPlayer11GOLD.bin
trumpet-205@HT-Computer-Linux:~/Desktop$ chmod a+x RealPlayer11GOLD.bin
trumpet-205@HT-Computer-Linux:~/Desktop$ ./RealPlayer11GOLD.bin
-bash: ./RealPlayer11GOLD.bin: No such file or directory
trumpet-205@HT-Computer-Linux:~/Desktop$ echo $0
-bash

You can get RealPlayer11GOLD.bin from Real Website (Go to google RealPlayer Linux).

OK, thank you for reporting back. That means, it's not a problem in xfce-terminal, but rather in one of the libs, bash or (as I suspect) the script itself.

Reassigning to bash for further triage.

The script is likely http://www.real.com/realcom/R?href=http://forms.real.com/real/player/download.html?f=unix/RealPlayer11GOLD.bin

$ file Desktop/RealPlayer11GOLD.bin
Desktop/RealPlayer11GOLD.bin: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.4.1, not stripped

$ ldd Desktop/RealPlayer11GOLD.bin
ldd: warning: you do not have execution permission for `Desktop/RealPlayer11GOLD.bin'
 linux-gate.so.1 => (0x00d4e000)
 libdl.so.2 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0x0036a000)
 libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00689000)
 libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0x00401000)
 libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x008e2000)
 libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0x00193000)
 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00610000)