missing a.out (ZMAGIC) support
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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linux (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
In order to run old (1994) commercial binaries, one needs a.out (ZMAGIC) support.
Executables that used to work (a few years ago) now give "cannot execute binary file".
strace on the invocation shows "ENOEXEC (Exec format error)".
Inspection of /boot/config-
# CONFIG_HAVE_AOUT is not set
# CONFIG_IA32_AOUT is not set
Inspection of /lib/modules/
So, perhaps the absence of such a module contributes to the non-running of my old executable.
Recently, perhaps in 2.6.27-11-generic there still was such a module.
All this is on x86_64 with Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS. It looks like Ubuntu 11.10 does not have AOUT support either.
Changed in linux (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → Confirmed |
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