fluxgui not an executable format

Alkaris

F.lux is a wonderful program, but there is issues with it on Linux Mint. I currently run Linux Mint 17.2 (Cinnamon) (64-bit), and fluxgui doesn't seem to be working anymore. It use to for a while then it just stopped.

I tried to run a debug with GDB in the terminal console, but I don't get much out of it.

$ gdb fluxgui >> fluxgui_GDB_dump

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(gdb) run
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(gdb) bt full
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(gdb) bt full
(gdb) threaad apply all bt full
(gdb) thread apply all bt full
(gdb) set logging on
Copying output to gdb.txt.
(gdb) exec-file /usr/bin/fluxgui
"/usr/bin/fluxgui": not in executable format: File format not recognised
(gdb) xflux -k 2700 -l -33.8800 -g 151.1914
(gdb)

second output shows this;

"/usr/bin/fluxgui": not in executable format: File format not recognised
Starting program: /usr/bin/xflux 
[Inferior 1 (process 26102) exited normally]

It tells me there that fluxgui is not in executable format and not recognised. The files are executable however;

$ ls -la /usr/bin/fluxgui /usr/bin/xflux
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    877 Sep  8  2010 /usr/bin/fluxgui
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 527224 Sep  8  2010 /usr/bin/xflux

also I do notice that fluxgui even when exited normally it may leave behind it's PID file under /tmp directory.