[SOLVED] lib32 problem on x86_64

vortex59 · 2013-03-26 07:09:31

I have the following problem on Arch x86_64 (2013.03.01): a 32 bit console chemistry program (firefly, former pcgamess, build in 2009) does not run. It starts but no output and "run forever" (CTRL-Z to stop). No message of missing library. I have installed lib32-glibc, lib32-gcc-libs, lib32-ncurses, lib32-libstdc++5 , etc. Do I missed something? Other 32 bit programs works fine. One year ago, on an older Arch computer it worked.

The computer is a Fujitsu-Siemens, Quad Core, 2.41 GHz, 4 GB RAM, HDD 500 GB, GFORCE 7600 video.

Last edited by vortex59 (2014-03-13 22:14:03)

Lone_Wolf · 2013-03-26 11:46:20

Does it give some error messages if you start it from terminal ?

also on the downloadpage for firefly 7.1G , they mention there's a patch to allow firefly to work with recent kernels .
http://classic.chem.msu.su/gran/gamess/patchff71g.zip

Is that patch installed ?

Edit :
are you using a static or dynamically linked version ?

Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2013-03-26 11:47:42)

vortex59 · 2013-03-26 12:03:18

1 - No messages.
2 - As I know, the patch applies only for kernel issues due to the jump to 3.0 versions. Any way I will give a try also with the patch.
3 - Fully static.

I tested on a Mint-Debian computer (x86_64) an it works without the patch. For Mint-Debian there is a full package of 32 libs (ia32-libs) which is installed on request. It is strange on Arch with no message on console requesting some libraries...

Lone_Wolf · 2013-03-26 12:18:09

Yeah, afaik there's no arch equivalent for ia32-libs .
And with proprietary software where you need a key to extract the binaries, it's hard to figure out the real dependencies.

You might have to fall back to using ldd to figure out which libraries it's missing.

vortex59 · 2013-03-26 12:20:58

Thanks! I will work around.
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That's what I received from ldd ./firefly

[mihai@ChemArch firefly]$ ldd ./firefly
linux-gate.so.1 (0xf77a5000)
libm.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libm.so.6 (0xf7745000)
libpthread.so.0 => /usr/lib32/libpthread.so.0 (0xf772a000)
libc.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libc.so.6 (0xf7579000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf77a6000)

and that is what I received from another 32 bit console program which works

[mihai@ChemArch gm01]$ ldd gm01
linux-gate.so.1 (0xf779f000)
libpthread.so.0 => /usr/lib32/libpthread.so.0 (0xf7767000)
libm.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libm.so.6 (0xf7724000)
libc.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libc.so.6 (0xf7573000)
librt.so.1 => /usr/lib32/librt.so.1 (0xf756a000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf77a0000)

Any more ideas?

Last edited by vortex59 (2013-03-28 09:30:09)

vortex59 · 2013-03-28 09:59:33

Something else on the same subject: with "ld firefly" I've got:

[mihai@ChemArch firefly]$ ld firefly
ld: i386 architecture of input file `firefly' is incompatible with i386:x86-64 output
ld: error in firefly(.eh_frame); no .eh_frame_hdr table will be created.
ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol _start; defaulting to 0000000000404ad0

Again: any ideas?

Thanks

progandy · 2013-03-28 10:18:31

ld is the linker, not the loader. Maybe you wanted to try this:
/usr/lib32/ld-linux.so.2 --verify firefly
/usr/lib32/ld-linux.so.2 --list firefly

Edit: The firefly homepage has different versions, maybe you want to try a different one (choose other optimization methods, ...).

Last edited by progandy (2013-03-28 10:26:17)

vortex59 · 2013-04-24 10:43:55

Back again! after enough "long" time (2-3 minutes) the comand ./firefly gave on terminal the following error:

[mihai@mmArch firefly]$ ./firefly
p0_28024: p4_error: Could not gethostbyname for host mmArch; may be invalid name
: 61

Any ideas?

Lone_Wolf · 2013-04-25 08:01:42

Could be a problem with the network configuration on your system, check http://blog.tempusdictum.com/index.php/ … e-for-host

vortex59 · 2013-04-25 17:58:16

Build that program. After runing it I got:

user_host = mmArch
gethostbyname(gethostname()) = mmArch
hostname(/*hardcoded*/ "hostname") failed

Any significance?

Lone_Wolf · 2013-04-26 09:30:03

Yes, that strongly suggests something in /etc/hostname file is not correct.

Check it thoroughly in a good editor for extra stuff like additional spaces or weird characters.
If you don't see anythin wrong with it, redirect the output of the program to a file and check that file carefully.

vortex59 · 2014-03-13 22:12:20

After almost one year I found the solution (well, I did not work only on this one ). Running the program mentioned above gave the same results on a computer with Linux Mint 13 Mate64 but the program firefly worked with no problems. I saw that the hostname was also in file hosts. So, for me the solution was to put the hostname in "hosts" file (/etc/hosts) :

#<ip-address>	<hostname.domain.org>	<hostname>
127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain	ChemArch

where ChemArch is now the hostname and everything works for firefly program.

progandy · 2014-03-13 23:25:42

vortex59 wrote:

After almost one year I found the solution (well, I did not work only on this one ). Running the program mentioned above gave the same results on a computer with Linux Mint 13 Mate64 but the program firefly worked with no problems. I saw that the hostname was also in file hosts. So, for me the solution was to put the hostname in "hosts" file (/etc/hosts) :
#<ip-address>	<hostname.domain.org>	<hostname>
127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain	ChemArch
where ChemArch is now the hostname and everything works for firefly program.

Good. Although the nss-myhostname(8) module should take care of that automatically in up-to-date arch installations.

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#1 2013-03-26 07:09:31

[SOLVED] lib32 problem on x86_64

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Re: [SOLVED] lib32 problem on x86_64

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