idaw file open errors and issues

jamescondron · 05-29-2009, 10:34 AM

I'm following the tutorial here: http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1641 (Well, sorta; its a tad out of date on the Wine front, so I'm having to make some changes) but I'm hitting a problem with openning binaries with idaw. The specific error:

bTree error: file open error.

The help text suggests it is a memory issue- this is patently wrong:

Code:

jc@jcmain:~$ cat /proc/meminfo 
MemTotal:      2038596 kB
MemFree:        888260 kB
Buffers:        230820 kB
Cached:         505764 kB
SwapCached:          0 kB
Active:         637988 kB
Inactive:       433184 kB
HighTotal:     1141500 kB
HighFree:       293552 kB
LowTotal:       897096 kB
LowFree:        594708 kB
SwapTotal:     6482216 kB
SwapFree:      6482216 kB
Dirty:             328 kB
Writeback:           0 kB
AnonPages:      334584 kB
Mapped:          78560 kB
Slab:            61924 kB
SReclaimable:    52544 kB
SUnreclaim:       9380 kB
PageTables:       2856 kB
NFS_Unstable:        0 kB
Bounce:              0 kB
WritebackTmp:        0 kB
CommitLimit:   7501512 kB
Committed_AS:   715104 kB
VmallocTotal:   114680 kB
VmallocUsed:      9284 kB
VmallocChunk:   105144 kB
HugePages_Total:     0
HugePages_Free:      0
HugePages_Rsvd:      0
HugePages_Surp:      0
Hugepagesize:     4096 kB

I suppose my first question is whether or not anyone can suggest a solution, though I must admit I'm not married to this method of reverse engineering windows binaries, so if anyone can link another tutorial or even suggest a different methodology then thats great too.

Cheers.