cl problem in a 64-bit machine

Germán Racca wrote on Jan 09, 2010

Hello mike:

I've installed IRAF in a AMD 64-bit Athlon machine, but I've the following problem. When I enter cl without doing mkiraf, I get the following:

[german@centauri ~]$ cl
Warning: no login.cl found in login directory
dataio images lists obsolete proto system
dbms language noao plot softools utilities
ecl>

But now I do mkiraf in some directory (terminal type: xterm) and enter cl:

[german@centauri iraf]$ cl
setting terminal type to xterm...
ERROR: Abnormal termination of child process '??'
called as: `prcache (directory)'
called as: `cl ()'
called as: `cl ()'
Error while reading login.cl file - may need to rebuild with mkiraf
Fatal startup error. CL dies.

Rebuilding with mkiraf several times doesn't solve the issue.

Can you help me?

Cheers,
Germán.

P.S. I'm using ecl.e from http://iraf.net/ftp/pub/fitz/ecl.e

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Mike Fitzpatrick wrote on Jan 09, 2010

Because the CL binary seems to start okay, my guess is that the x_system.e binary is the cause of the 'abnormal termination' message. This usually means there is e.g. a missing (32-bit compatibility?) shared library or a permissions problem.

You should go to the $iraf/bin.redhat directory at the unix prompt and try the following

 
% ldd x_system.e
% ./x_system.e

The first command will list the required shared libs, look for 'not found' messages. The second will run the binary directly, if it works you'll see a '>' prompt (type 'bye' to exit) otherwise the host error message might help.

-Mike

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Germán Racca wrote on Jan 09, 2010

Hi Mike:

Thanks for your prompt reply. This is what you asked for:

[german@centauri bin.redhat]$ ldd x_system.e 
        not a dynamic executable

[german@centauri bin.redhat]$ ./x_system.e 
bash: ./x_system.e: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: bad ELF interpreter: No such file or directory

I forgot to mention that I'm running Fedora 12 x86_64.
Germán.

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Mike Fitzpatrick wrote on Jan 09, 2010

You could try

% yum install elfutils elfutils-libelf elfutils-libs elfutils-libelf-devel

but basically the binary is expecting something that will run the older ELF binaries, I can't say whether this is limited to the interpreter or some 32-bin compatibility issue. Also check whether you've got all possible glibc i386 packages installed, Fedora 12 is really new compared to the system used to build the binaries.

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Germán Racca wrote on Jan 09, 2010

Hi Mike:

Installing glibc.i686 did the trick!

[german@centauri bin.redhat]$ ldd x_system.e 
	linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xf773c000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0xf76f3000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xf757e000)
	/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf773d000)

[german@centauri bin.redhat]$ ./x_system.e 
> 
> bye

Now I can run CL perfectly in Fedora 12 x86_64.

Thank you very much for your help.

Germán.

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