topic Re: Exec format error when app tries to write file in Operating System - HP-UX

Exec format error when app tries to write file

robert dowd — Wed, 23 Apr 2003 22:14:23 GMT

I have a C server application that writes files to /etc/$dirname

up until today, this application had no problem.

However today, I am receiving the ENOEXEC Exec format error.

Something has changed.

But what could it be? the application is running as root. (correctly). file permissions are right. and i can touch a file on the target partition.

but the app can't create one.

i'm running 11.11 with the latest patches.

Re: Exec format error when app tries to write file

Donny Jekels — Thu, 24 Apr 2003 00:17:29 GMT

you have been running 11.11 all the time? that is my understanding.

C = ?

Is the application compiled or a bunch of scripts put together.

do

file * in the app?/bin/*

let me know

Re: Exec format error when app tries to write file

Bill Douglass — Thu, 24 Apr 2003 03:06:52 GMT

ENOEXEC refers to an exec failure, or a filure to load a shared library.

Can your install tusc

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/tusc-7.3/

and try tracing the command. This will tell you where in the program the system call is failing.

Re: Exec format error when app tries to write file

T G Manikandan — Thu, 24 Apr 2003 05:46:50 GMT

Exec format error could be like one of the files might be corrupt.

you can use tusc to narrow down the problem and restore the specific files with the right size.

Thanks

Re: Exec format error when app tries to write file

robert dowd — Thu, 24 Apr 2003 15:30:59 GMT

thanks guys for your help.
i figured out what the problem was - the app had a minimum free disk space requirement on the / partition, and we were below that. ==99%. i cleared out a tar.gz file that shouldn't have been there and that brought us down to 40% level.

i didn't think of using tusc, though. i will remember that for future...thanks.

B