Installed bash but now getting /bin/bash: bad interpreter ??

[magicpio]

Hi,
I want to install Xampp.
For this I installed the bash extension first.

1. Do I have to start bash manually or is it started automatically afetr next bootup?
(In fact, I entered "bash" as su).

I installed xampp.
Starting xampp gives following error:

bash: /opt/lampp/lampp: /bin/bash: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

Could anyone please tell me what I´m missing here?

Thanks
Pio

[gerald_clark]

Bash is not in /bin.
'which bash' will give you the path.

[Jason W]

/bin/bash is included in the extension as a symlink to /usr/local/bin/bash as that is where it is expected in most scripts, so it should work as expected unless that symlink is broken or another similar file issue.

[gerald_clark]

Jason is correct.
Perhaps bash.tcz is not actually loaded.

[magicpio]

which bash gives
/usr/local/bin/bash

in /bin is definitely no bash.

I created a symlink in /bin to /usr/loc.......
and now it works. (but gives errors related to ipv6 I guess, so I will install this package as well.)

But I had to start bash twice in a console window as su??

Thanks for your help guys!
Pio

[Jason W]

It sounds like the startup script did not run, it is what creates the /bin/bash symlink as well as a few other things.

[tinypoodle]

which bash gives
/usr/local/bin/bash

As expected!
Same on my system where there are no issues of 'missing link'   

[TaoTePuh]

For this I installed the bash extension first.

1.) In what way have you installed bash.tcz (AppBrwoser, tce-load) ?
2.) Do you have the script "/usr/local/tce.installed/bash" ? This script creates the link "/bin/bash -> /usr/local/bin/bash". What happens if you manually execute this script?