[Veritas-bu] VRTSperl error when installing ICS (NBU 6) on RHEL 4

[Justin Piszcz]

On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, goliathlibrary wrote:

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> I ran into this error today, but it was the permissions on the perl binaries themselves that was the culprit. I had received a zipped copy of the ICS installer and i think in the process of zipping it in windows and transferring it to our red hat machine and unzipping it there i lost all the executable permissions on all the scripts in the installer. Tar FTW.
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> Check out your permissions:
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> # ls -al <ICS dir>/perl/bin/
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> if perl isnt excutable try changing it. i got this error after changing it tho:
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> ./installics
> ./installics: line 43: <>/ICS/perl/bin/perl: cannot execute binary file
> ./installics: line 43: <>/ICS/perl/bin/perl: Success
>
>
> So i'm going to track down the actual ICS cd and make an ISO of it and see how that works. If anyone has any tips on the above error about it not being able to execute a binary file let me know your thoughts.
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> Thanks.
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What about /usr/bin/perl installics ?

What architecture are you running? x86? x86_64?

You sure you got the right installics/install CD for the correct platform?

Justin.