Messages in this thread | | | From | (Paul Slootman) | Subject | N_TXTOFF < BLOCK_SIZE. Please convert binary. | Date | Wed, 18 Dec 1996 15:08:23 +0100 (MET) |
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I got a number of these messages since yesterday (they were in my syslog, and had happened overnight). It took a little detective work te determine what the problem was...
I had repartitioned a second disk, and made /usr/local a separate filesystem. I had formatted that filesystem as an ext2 with 2048 byte blocks (mostly pretty big files on there, so I figured that couldn't hurt). That, apparently, *did* hurt. There were a couple of executables in /usr/local/bin that were still a.out ZMAGIC (metamail being a significant one).
It seems that ZMAGIC executables can't be loaded from a 2K ext2 filesystem? Why? Is this documented anywhere? I did a thorough find / grep of my system, but that didn;t turn up any pointers. How can I "convert binary" (besides recompiling as ELF)?
Details: 2.0.27, running a bunch of stuff as modules. The message in the subject is closely followed by "modprobe: Can't locate module binfmt-267". QMAGIC works fine, BTW; or at least my copy of netscape does.
Paul Slootman -- Murphy Software, Enschede, The Netherlands | ... It beeped and said work: paul@wau.mis.ah.nl / paul@murphy.nl | "Countdown initiated." home: paul@wurtel.demon.nl | Is that bad?
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