Trying to start, says Bad executable

Vine
#1

Hello,

i was trying to run vine server/viewer on my OSX10.4.1/x86 machine, but all i get is
bash: ./Vine Viewer: Bad executable (or shared library)
i have downloaded both server and viewer package several times, but it’s the same error message. anybody knows what could cause this?,

#2

This error usually occurs when your download becomes munged and loses the symbolic link the underlying VNC server executable. This can happen if you are unpacking it on a Windows machine or you are copying it strangely (FTP or something).

Try downloading and unpacking VineServer directly on the machine that will be using it.

#3

Downloaded, mounted, installed, ran, all worked while on a mac.

#4

Yea, i thought it could be broken in download or something like that, that’s why i downloaded it several times. It was on the same machine i’m trying to run it.

#5

How are you unpacking it?

#6

With the default DiskImageMounter,

#7

I would recommend this…

  1. launch /Applications/Utilties/Terminal.app
  2. Type in a shell terminal windows, “cd /tmp”
  3. Type “curl -O http://www.redstonesoftware.com/downloads/Vine.dmg”
  4. Type “open .”
  5. From Finder, double click the .dmg and do the Vine Install to /Applications (drag and drop), authenticate if needed, overwrite existing.
  6. Please verify here that this worked.

If that doesn’t work, then maybe you can provide an anonymous ftp site and I can drop it into that site for you.

#8

Well the commands worked fine, but it still get Bad executable. i have also downloaded it with a linux box on another isp and put the dmg on a usb stick,… i don’t think it’s a download problem, can’t there be any other reason?

#9

Hmm…that really is bizarre (and are you really running 10.4.1 or did you mean 10.4.10).

I would suggest starting totally from scratch, remove all instances of Vine from you Desktop,/Applications and the OSXvnc server from /Library/Startup. (Maybe even reboot).

Do a fresh download and actually just run Vine Server from the DMG package to see if it launches there.

A possible cause is if you are using a File System that we aren’t accustomed to (UFS?).