#863102 epubcheck: exec format error

Package:
epubcheck
Source:
epubcheck
Submitter:
Stephane Bortzmeyer
Date:
2024-09-21 06:21:04 UTC
Severity:
important
#863102#5
Date:
2017-05-21 19:25:42 UTC
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%  epubcheck
zsh: exec format error: epubcheck

I assume that, in one way or the other, a non-ARM executable is
embedded in the package.
#863102#8
Date:
2022-03-12 16:44:45 UTC
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Could you send me the output of:

% type epubcheck

and then:

% file /usr/bin/epubcheck

I would be interested also in the output (head) of:

% strace epubcheck

Thanks
#863102#13
Date:
2024-07-31 09:27:40 UTC
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Could it be that, seven years later, I am having the same problem?

$ epubcheck -h > /tmp/log 2>&1
Gives an exit code 2 and here is the output of the log:
/usr/bin/epubcheck: ligne 1: $'PK\003\004' : commande introuvable
/usr/bin/epubcheck: ligne 8: erreur de syntaxe près du symbole inattendu « ( »
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$ file /usr/bin/epubcheck
/usr/bin/epubcheck: symbolic link to ../share/java/epubcheck.jar
$ file /usr/share/java/epubcheck.jar
/usr/share/java/epubcheck.jar: Zip archive data, at least v1.0 to
extract, compression method=store

It may be worth noting that this was working alright until recently.
Then I installed calibre, which I think did upgrade a number of
packages. Could it be that the kernel new how to execute Java files and
dooes no longer know  how to do that?
#863102#18
Date:
2024-09-21 06:19:33 UTC
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I'm also seeing this bug.

Since /usr/bin/epubcheck is a symlink to /usr/share/java/epubcheck.jar
and running

    java -jar /usr/share/java/epubcheck.jar

runs epubcheck fine, I think the obvious solution is to replace the
symlink with a small shell script.
Here's a suggestion:

    #!/bin/sh

    exec java -jar /usr/share/java/epubcheck.jar "$@"

The executable permissions should also be removed from the jar-file.
Having jar as an executable format may have worked at some point, but
not any more.