[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#625562: Help needed: Bug#625562: figtree: fails to start

[Russ Allbery]

Andreas Tille <andreas at an3as.eu> writes:

> I have no idea how to track down this problem because I can not reproduce
> it.  Does it sound somehow familiar for a known problem?

/usr/bin/figtree is a symlink to an executable JAR file.  I believe in
order for executable JAR files to be passed to Java properly, the user has
to be running binfmt_misc (the Linux kernel extension that makes this
work).  Without that, the kernel will pass the executable to the shell,
which will then explode with the error messages you show.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>