unable to start Photorec - Syntax error Topic is solved

[the9thsky]

Hello,

I am trying to run Photorec on a Linux Mint 15 distro, but unfortunately I keep receiving a syntax error:

./photorec_static: 1: ./photorec_static: Syntax error: ")" unexpected

Does anyone have a clue as to what may be wrong, or what I could try more?

PS: I have downloaded/extracted both the 6.14 and the 7 archives, and tried running the photorec_static inside, yet to no avail

[cgrenier]

Can you post the output of "uname -a" and "objdump -x photorec_static" ?

[the9thsky]

Hello,

Here are the outputs, as requested:

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Linux i1750 3.8.0-19-generic #29-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 17 18:19:42 UTC 2013 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux

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photorec_static:     file format elf32-i386
photorec_static
architecture: i386, flags 0x00000102:
EXEC_P, D_PAGED
start address 0x080481c0

Program Header:
    LOAD off    0x00000000 vaddr 0x08048000 paddr 0x08048000 align 2**12
         filesz 0x002a4286 memsz 0x002a4286 flags r-x
    LOAD off    0x002a4288 vaddr 0x082ed288 paddr 0x082ed288 align 2**12
         filesz 0x00004368 memsz 0x0002c078 flags rw-
    NOTE off    0x000000d4 vaddr 0x080480d4 paddr 0x080480d4 align 2**2
         filesz 0x00000044 memsz 0x00000044 flags r--
     TLS off    0x002a4288 vaddr 0x082ed288 paddr 0x082ed288 align 2**2
         filesz 0x00000018 memsz 0x00000050 flags r--
   STACK off    0x00000000 vaddr 0x00000000 paddr 0x00000000 align 2**2
         filesz 0x00000000 memsz 0x00000000 flags rw-

Sections:
Idx Name          Size      VMA       LMA       File off  Algn
  0 .note.ABI-tag 00000020  080480d4  080480d4  000000d4  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
  1 .note.gnu.build-id 00000024  080480f4  080480f4  000000f4  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
  2 .rel.plt      00000028  08048118  08048118  00000118  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
  3 .init         00000030  08048140  08048140  00000140  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE
  4 .plt          00000050  08048170  08048170  00000170  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE
  5 .text         00200a6c  080481c0  080481c0  000001c0  2**4
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE
  6 __libc_freeres_fn 000019d0  08248c30  08248c30  00200c30  2**4
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE
  7 __libc_thread_freeres_fn 000001fa  0824a600  0824a600  00202600  2**4
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE
  8 .fini         0000001c  0824a7fc  0824a7fc  002027fc  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE
  9 .rodata       00065f70  0824a820  0824a820  00202820  2**5
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
 10 __libc_subfreeres 00000048  082b0790  082b0790  00268790  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
 11 __libc_atexit 00000004  082b07d8  082b07d8  002687d8  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
 12 __libc_thread_subfreeres 00000008  082b07dc  082b07dc  002687dc  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
 13 .stapsdt.base 00000001  082b07e4  082b07e4  002687e4  2**0
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
 14 .eh_frame     0003b880  082b07e8  082b07e8  002687e8  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
 15 .gcc_except_table 0000021e  082ec068  082ec068  002a4068  2**0
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
 16 .tdata        00000018  082ed288  082ed288  002a4288  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA, THREAD_LOCAL
 17 .tbss         00000038  082ed2a0  082ed2a0  002a42a0  2**2
                  ALLOC, THREAD_LOCAL
 18 .ctors        00000010  082ed2a0  082ed2a0  002a42a0  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
 19 .dtors        00000010  082ed2b0  082ed2b0  002a42b0  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
 20 .jcr          00000004  082ed2c0  082ed2c0  002a42c0  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
 21 .data.rel.ro  00000730  082ed2c4  082ed2c4  002a42c4  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
 22 .got          000005e4  082ed9f4  082ed9f4  002a49f4  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
 23 .got.plt      00000020  082edfd8  082edfd8  002a4fd8  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
 24 .data         000035f0  082ee000  082ee000  002a5000  2**5
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
 25 .bss          00027cd4  082f1600  082f1600  002a85f0  2**5
                  ALLOC
 26 __libc_freeres_ptrs 0000002c  083192d4  083192d4  002a85f0  2**2
                  ALLOC
 27 .note.stapsdt 0000022c  00000000  00000000  002a85f0  2**2
                  CONTENTS, READONLY
 28 .comment      00000058  00000000  00000000  002a881c  2**0
                  CONTENTS, READONLY
SYMBOL TABLE:
no symbols

PS: I have managed to get it to work eventually.

Yesterday I was trying the x86_64 versions of Photorec (knowing that I have a 64-bit capable CPU) - I have also tried an i386 version, but something may have went wrong while unpacking it.
Today I've redownloaded the i386 version of Photorec to give it another try, and luckily it worked.