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Subject: Re: ELF interpreter /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 not found
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On Sun, 11 Oct 2009, AN wrote:

> On a recently installed 8.0RC1 system I am getting this when trying to start 
> the cups printing daemon:
>
> # cupsd
> ELF interpreter /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 not found
> Abort trap: 6
>
> A listing of the directory shows the following:
> ls -l /libexec/
> total 544
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  249544 Oct 10 07:14 ld-elf.so.1

I'm assuming there are a lot more files than this in there?

Can you show the following output:
   uname -a
   file `which cupsd`
   file /libexec/ld-elf.so.1
   ldd `which cupsd`

Is it possible you've somehow installed amd64 packages on an i386 system?

Gavin