Cannot Execute Binary File Linux Virtual Machine

[Jamshed]

I'm running Linux Mint in a VM. When I run ./splunk start in splunk/bin, I get:

bash: ./splunk: cannot executre binary file.

Do I need to install a specific form of java? or something?

Thanks!

[sherm77]

This was my problem and this had the answser. I forgot that I was working with a 'trial' Ubuntu 32 bit system and mistakenly installed the 64 bit UF. Easy fix, just download the right one and unzip the thing & startup. I'm thankful Splunk makes it this easy to fix my mistakes. Out of hundreds of Splunk forwarder installs, this has to be the one 32 bit one off.. bleh.

uname -a is your friend 🙂

[alanfinlay]

It appears the splunk executable is not correct for this OS. Can you try "file ./splunk" ?

You should get something like this (this is 64bit, but similar):

# file ./splunk
./splunk: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, AMD x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.4.0, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.4.0, stripped

[alanfinlay]

Hi Jamshed,

Since you said earlier you are using 32bit Linux, you should have a 32 bit splunk executable, but yours is 64 bit. This could be your problem. (i.e. you need to download the 32 bit splunk install archive if you have 32 bit Linux).

[Jamshed]

Hi alanfinlay!

Yes I did that and got

./splunk: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.4.0, stripped

This seems to be correct. Should I try a different distro of linux? If so, what?

Thanks!

[yannK]

Make sure that you have the good binaries ( linux build and 64 or 32 bit).
Otherwise it may be a system dependancy. try ./splunk start --debug

[Jamshed]

I am running linux mint 32. Everything seems to be fine on it, and --debug gives the same error.

I ran as sudo and got:

./splunk: 1: ./splunk: Syntax error: "(" unexpected