[1.16.2] "reboot" -> "No such file or directory"?

[walter harms]

Am 01.07.2011 09:41, schrieb Ed W:
> On 30/06/2011 16:19, Gilles wrote:
>> However when I run /bin/reboot, I get this:
>> ================
>> root:/bin> ./reboot
>> reboot: No such file or directory
>> ================
> 
> I might be on the wrong track, but just a heads up:
> 
> You get this error message when you run some script which a shebang that
> points to (say) bash (#!/bin/bash).
> 
> So it's possible that reboot binary is trying to execute some shell
> script which either doesn't exist or has a broken reference to
> bash/perl/python or some other interpretor which isn't installed.
> 
> This has baffled me enough in the course of building my little distro
> that I'm starting to remember what it means when I see it now.
> Confusingly it can occur a few layers down in the execution order and be
> tricky to figure out...
> 

The code will happily print that message also if a depending shared library is
not found (it can drive you nuts). Also having a \r\n behind #!/bin/sh is a nice
source.


re,
 wh