I get "invalid ELF header” when trying to start a perl script in irssi

Techno Guy · 01-22-2010, 10:06 PM

I used to run this script just fine on my old server (Debian 5 Lenny x32)…. but doesn’t seem to work with this new one… though both will have different software installed..

I tell the script to load and I get:
04:55 -!- Irssi: Error loading module testScript/testScript: /user/.irssi/scripts/autorun/testScript.pl: invalid ELF header

The script code:

Code:

#/script load autorun/testScript.pl
use Irssi;
use Irssi::Irc;
#use strict;
use vars qw($VERSION %IRSSI);

$VERSION="0.1";
%IRSSI = (
       authors=> 'anonymous',
       name=> 'testScript',
       description=> 'testScriptt',
       license=> 'GPL',
);

system qq{curl -s -k -b “uid=12345” "http://somesite.com/file.php" > /dev/null 2>&1};
Irssi::print("testScript Loaded");

Running:
Debian 5 (Lenny) amd x64
This is perl, v5.10.0 built for x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi
irssi 0.8.14 (20090728 1938)

Perl it’s self seems to work, because i’v run some other Perl scripts directly (perl ./script.pl) and they work fine)

Any ideas as to what is going on here and how I might be able to fix it?
Cheers, Techono

Tinkster · 01-23-2010, 05:05 PM

Did you copy any of the old stuff (x32) across from the
old install, did you install x64_86 over the top of the
old one? That would be my first suspicion - that there's
some 32 bit code floating around that doesn't want to
work in the current (new) x64_86 environment.

My attempts to finding those executables would go through
your irssi tree and use file to find out what you got
there... something like:

Code:

find /user/.irssi -type f | xargs file | grep -i ELF.*32

Cheers,
Tink

Techno Guy · 01-23-2010, 07:26 PM

I used the following to install it: (think glib was needed for irssi too…)

Code:

wget http://ftp.gtk.org/pub/glib/2.23/glib-2.23.1.tar.gz
tar -xvf glib-2.23.1.tar.gz
cd glib-2.23.1
./configure
make
checkinstall (same as doing make install)

wget http://www.irssi.org/files/irssi-0.8.14.tar.gz
tar -xvf irssi-0.8.14.tar.gz
cd irssi-0.8.14
ldconfig
./configure
make
checkinstall

I didn’t bring over anything from the old server, only the .pl (perl) scrips and copied over the config file kept in ~/.irssi/ (could the config file of done it… seems unlikely…)

But oh well, turns out I had several other issues, (I compiled most of the stuff I installed, turns out that wasn’t the best idea :P) so i’v reinstalled the server and doing the majority with apt-get this time, irssi seems to be working fine with the scripts now…

But thanks for your help, im sure it will prove useful to someone else one day.