Eric's questions

I am trying to install a boost148 package. This is a separate package from the boost, which I have installed and is version 1.41.

yum install boost
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit, security
Setting up Install Process
Package boost-1.41.0-18.el6.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do

But when I try to install Boost148 using yum install boost148 -y I receive the following

Transaction Check Error:
  file /usr/lib64/libboost_chrono-mt.so.1.48.0 from install of boost148-chrono-1.48.0-7.el6.x86_64 conflicts with file from package boost-chrono-1.48.0-14.el6.x86_64
  file /usr/lib64/libboost_chrono.so.1.48.0 from install of boost148-chrono-1.48.0-7.el6.x86_64 conflicts with file from package boost-chrono-1.48.0-14.el6.x86_64
  file /usr/lib64/libboost_date_time-mt.so.1.48.0 from install of boost148-date-time-1.48.0-7.el6.x86_64 conflicts with file from package boost-date-time-1.48.0-14.el6.x86_64
  file /usr/lib64/libboost_date_time.so.1.48.0 from install of boost148-date-time-1.48.0-7.el6.x86_64 conflicts with file from package boost-date-time-1.48.0-14.el6.x86_64

So I checked to see if boost148 is partially installed

yum list installed | grep boost148

Nothing Shows up.

Also if I try to ls any of the files in the transaction check error, they do not exist.

# ls /usr/lib64/libboost_chrono-mt.so.1.48.0
ls: cannot access /usr/lib64/libboost_chrono-mt.so.1.48.0: No such file or directory

I figure it is some type of yum database problem so I did a yum-complete-transaction and a yum clean all but I am still unable to install the boost145 package. Any ideas on how I can convince yum to proceed with the install?

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@ bangal

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@Michael Hampton

rpm -qi boost-chrono
Name        : boost-chrono                 Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 1.48.0                            Vendor: (none)
Release     : 14.el6                        Build Date: Mon 03 Jun 2013 04:20:53 AM EDT
Install Date: Fri 06 Nov 2015 03:09:26 PM EST      Build Host: localhost
Group       : System Environment/Libraries   Source RPM: boost-1.48.0-14.el6.src.rpm
Size        : 628796                           License: Boost and MIT and Python
Signature   : RSA/SHA1, Mon 03 Jun 2013 05:01:38 AM EDT, Key ID fcc2e6fe304dba4d
Packager    : .sroycode
URL         : http://www.boost.org
Summary     : Run-Time component of boost chrono library
Description :

Run-Time support for Boost.Chrono, a set of useful time utilities.

When I run one of my user's applications named "myfile".

$ ./myfile

I receive the following output

bash: ./myfile: cannot execute binary file

My user expects the binary file to run. I assume this is a compilation error but am unable to confirm it. I ran the file command

$ file myfile
myfile: ELF 64-bit LSB relocatable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), not stripped

My RHEL6 OS is 64-bit

$ uname -p -o
x86_64 GNU/Linux

So it looks to me like it was complied for the right architecture. I don't understand what "relocatable" means in the file command's output and was not able to get an explanation form the man pages.

For good measure I checked for Shared Library Dependencies

$ ldd myfile 
not a dynamic executable

Is there any way I can get this file to run or give my user some constructive information about why it won't run (such as he needs to recompile using x)?

Strace

$ strace ./myfile
execve("./myfile", ["./myfile"], [/* 22 vars */]) = -1 ENOEXEC (Exec format error)
dup(2)                                  = 3
fcntl(3, F_GETFL)                       = 0x8002 (flags O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE)
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0620, st_rdev=makedev(136, 0), ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f7a9fc93000
lseek(3, 0, SEEK_CUR)                   = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek)
write(3, "strace: exec: Exec format error\n", 32strace: exec: Exec format error
) = 32
close(3)                                = 0
munmap(0x7f7a9fc93000, 4096)            = 0
exit_group(1)                           = ?

readelf output

readelf -S ./myfile    There are 13 section headers, starting at offset 0x1e8:

Section Headers:
  [Nr] Name              Type             Address           Offset
       Size              EntSize          Flags  Link  Info  Align
  [ 0]                   NULL             0000000000000000  00000000
       0000000000000000  0000000000000000           0     0     0
  [ 1] .text             PROGBITS         0000000000000000  00000040
       0000000000000098  0000000000000000  AX       0     0     4
  [ 2] .rela.text        RELA             0000000000000000  000006e0
       0000000000000120  0000000000000018          11     1     8
  [ 3] .data             PROGBITS         0000000000000000  000000d8
       0000000000000010  0000000000000000  WA       0     0     4
  [ 4] .bss              NOBITS           0000000000000000  000000e8
       0000000000000000  0000000000000000  WA       0     0     4
  [ 5] .rodata           PROGBITS         0000000000000000  000000e8
       0000000000000033  0000000000000000   A       0     0     1
  [ 6] .comment          PROGBITS         0000000000000000  0000011b
       000000000000002d  0000000000000001  MS       0     0     1
  [ 7] .note.GNU-stack   PROGBITS         0000000000000000  00000148
       0000000000000000  0000000000000000           0     0     1
  [ 8] .eh_frame         PROGBITS         0000000000000000  00000148
       0000000000000038  0000000000000000   A       0     0     8
  [ 9] .rela.eh_frame    RELA             0000000000000000  00000800
       0000000000000018  0000000000000018          11     8     8
  [10] .shstrtab         STRTAB           0000000000000000  00000180
       0000000000000061  0000000000000000           0     0     1
  [11] .symtab           SYMTAB           0000000000000000  00000528
       0000000000000180  0000000000000018          12     9     8
  [12] .strtab           STRTAB           0000000000000000  000006a8
       0000000000000037  0000000000000000           0     0     1
Key to Flags:
  W (write), A (alloc), X (execute), M (merge), S (strings)
  I (info), L (link order), G (group), x (unknown)
  O (extra OS processing required) o (OS specific), p (processor specific)