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Subject: [Q] Exec format error, X on FreeBSD 1.1
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From: aogbadeg@scws9.harvard.edu (Abolade Gbadegesin)
Date: 12 Apr 1994 05:10:14 GMT
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Hello,

A friend of mine with a 4MB Zeos running FreeBSD 1.1 is
having trouble getting XFree86 2.1 to run. When any of the executables
(server, binaries, anything) are run, the system gives an error
message like
	/usr/X386/bin/X: Exec format error. Wrong architecture.

I thought it might be a problem with NetBSD/FreeBSD binaries,
but the X binaries came from freebsd.cdrom.com under the correct
directory. I also thought it might be something to do with
shared libraries, but I don't know enough about the differences.
Any help would be immensely appreciated. Replies can be mailed
to aelia@husc.harvard.edu.

-Bolade