OK, with help from the list I found the problem. The binfmt_aout module was not loaded automatically as I expected. (looked for the messages in syslog)
alias binfmt-0008 binfmt_aout, if I remember well. Ionut On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 08:32:33AM +0100, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > Hello Ionut, > On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 11:47:53PM +0100, Ionut Georgescu wrote: > > does anyone know what has happend with the support for Tru64 binaries in > > 2.4.x? > > I have just realized that acroread stopped working after a kernel upgrade > > from > > 2.2.20-generic to 2.4.18-generic. Just running /sbin/loader gives me on both > > 2.4.18 and 2.4.20 (compiled with CONFIG_OSF4_COMPAT) > > > > bash: /sbin/loader: cannot execute binary file > > > > Am I missing something ? It is a fresh woody system. > > I am running acroread fine with 2.4.20-pre4. So check your kernel > config (sorry, do not know the option off hand, something with ECOFF). > > Regards > > Helge > > -- > Helge Kreutzmann, Dipl.-Phys. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > gpg signed mail preferred gpg-key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 64bit GNU powered http://www.itp.uni-hannover.de/~kreutzm > Help keep free software "libre": http://www.freepatents.org/ -- *************** * Ionut Georgescu * http://www.physik.tu-cottbus.de/~george/ * Registered Linux User #244479 * * "In Windows you can do everything Microsoft wants you to do; in Unix you * can do anything the computer is able to do."