{"id":3784,"date":"2011-02-10T08:44:22","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T08:44:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-04-18T22:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:52:10","slug":"unixprocess-forkandexec-native-error-no-such-file-or-directory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/?p=3784","title":{"rendered":"UNIXProcess.forkAndExec native error: No such file or directory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got the error yesterday while trying to install WebSphere using RAFW on an old Linux installation, having the media-folder mounted from a network share on a Windows XP-box. I had unzipped the tar-files containing the installation binaries on my own laptop, then just copied them using Windows Explorer to the pc where I had shared out the folder. Apparently it should be no problem doing this, I could without any problem navigate down the folder structure on the Linux machine viewing all the files. But still I got errors such as the <\/p>\n<p><code> UNIXProcess.forkAndExec native error: No such file or directory<br \/>\n<\/code><br \/>\nand later while changing the log level to =ALL, I found<br \/>\n<code><br \/>\n\/usr\/RAFW\/product\/actions\/install\/was\/common\/install_update_was_common.xml:89: \/usr\/RAFW\/media\/linux\/X32\/was\/70\/patches\/was70_fp13 not found. <\/code><br \/>\nbut, it was there, I know&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So, after receiving a tip from my colleagues, I deleted the media tree, using ftp transferred the tar-files containing the binaries to the pc with the share, installed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cygwin.com\/\">Cygwin<\/a> and unpacked the files using the tar command. Voila&#8230;problem solved&#8230;stupid, stupid!!! But problem gone, on to the next&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got the error yesterday while trying to install WebSphere using RAFW on an old Linux installation, having the media-folder mounted from a network share on a Windows XP-box. I had unzipped the tar-files containing the installation binaries on my own laptop, then just copied them using Windows Explorer to the pc where I had shared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13826,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3784\/revisions\/13826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}