topic Re: /usr/ccs/bin/ar corruption in Operating System - HP-UX

/usr/ccs/bin/ar corruption

Marco Shaw_1 — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 07:13:05 GMT

HP-UX beginner...

I'm getting errors with ar trying to install some packages.

root@[foo]/var/adm/sw> ls -l /usr/ccs/bin/ar
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root bin 28112 Oct 29 2003 /usr/ccs/bin/ar
root@[foo]/var/adm/sw> file /usr/ccs/bin/ar
/usr/ccs/bin/ar: ELF-32 executable object file
root@[foo]/var/adm/sw> /usr/ccs/bin/ar
ksh: /usr/ccs/bin/ar: cannot execute

That size doesn't match at all the size of ar on another of our HP-UX 11.23 servers.

We don't have a backup of this system (might have a Ignite done, not sure). Can I simply copy ar from another server running the same OS? Can I reinstall a particular package?

What's the easiest way to fix this?

Re: /usr/ccs/bin/ar corruption

Calandrello — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 07:22:02 GMT

occurred some error in the installation of depot?

Re: /usr/ccs/bin/ar corruption

Pete Randall — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 07:22:37 GMT

Marco,

I would first try copying it from another (identical) server. You may find that there are other problems after the copy, but that's a relatively simple first approach.

Pete

Re: /usr/ccs/bin/ar corruption

Peter Godron — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 07:24:30 GMT

Marco,
certainly worth a try to copy from another system. But keep the original as a backup!

Re: /usr/ccs/bin/ar corruption

Jaime Bolanos Rojas. — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 07:26:25 GMT

Marco,

Also you might want to change to owner to bin bin, not sure that is going to fix the issue, but at least that is how is on my system.

Regards,

Jaime.

Re: /usr/ccs/bin/ar corruption

Marco Shaw_1 — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 07:32:58 GMT

A copy of ar from another system was successfull.