/usr/ccs/bin/ar corruption

[Marco Shaw_1]

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?

[Calandrello]

occurred some error in the installation of depot?

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

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

[Peter Godron]

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

[Jaime Bolanos Rojas.]

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.

[Marco Shaw_1]

A copy of ar from another system was successfull.