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["Christopher M. Penalver" <christopher.m.penalver@xxxxxxxxx>]

auquicu, regarding the segmentation faults, a file should have appeared in the folder:
/var/crash

which you would be able to file a crash report against via a terminal:
ubuntu-bug CRASHFILENAME.crash

Please report this and subscribe me to the new bug report, and we can
take it from there.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/966472

Title:
  missing a.out (ZMAGIC) support

Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  In order to run old (1994) commercial binaries, one needs a.out (ZMAGIC) support.
  Executables that used to work (a few years ago) now give "cannot execute binary file".
  strace on the invocation shows "ENOEXEC (Exec format error)".
  Inspection of /boot/config-2.6.32-22-generic shows 
  # CONFIG_HAVE_AOUT is not set
  # CONFIG_IA32_AOUT is not set
  Inspection of /lib/modules/2.6.32-22-generic shows no ia32_aout.ko, where I think there used to be such a module.

  So, perhaps the absence of such a module contributes to the non-running of my old executable.
  Recently, perhaps in 2.6.27-11-generic there still was such a module.
  All this is on x86_64 with Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS. It looks like Ubuntu 11.10 does not have AOUT support either.

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