[ALUG] Re: executable script gives error "file not found"

[cl at isbd.net]

On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 11:44:26AM +0000, Jenny Hopkins wrote:
> Hullo there,
> 
> I've been setting up a debian box to be a clone of several other like
> boxen.  The new box has amd64 architecture and the old i386.
> Apart from that they are all still on debian sarge, 2.6 kernels.
> 
> One thing all the boxen have in common is that they share files over
> an nfs mount from a server.  Some of the files are binary executables.
> 
> Now, on the new box, they simply won't run: I get the error
> 
> balloon at capirossi:~$ /home/balloon/bin/balloon-audio-off
> bash: /home/balloon/bin/balloon-audio-off: No such file or directory
> 
> The same error appears when running it as root.
> 
> The file is executable.
> The selfsame file also runs no problem from the other computers using it.
> All I know about the file is that it invokes the bash shell and that
> it is sending data to the parallel port.
> 
> I put together a test bash script to idiot check bash and that ran ok.
> 
It sounds as if the #! at the beginning of the script is pointing at
the wrong location for bash (or at least a wrong location for
something).

Look at the first line of /home/balloon/bin/balloon-audio-off and see
if what it points at exists (and is executable) on the system where it
fails to run.

-- 
Chris Green (chris at halon.org.uk)