From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1P5Qky-0001Hq-Se for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 11 Oct 2010 22:22:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3BC46E074E; Mon, 11 Oct 2010 22:21:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f53.google.com (mail-ew0-f53.google.com [209.85.215.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E88FEE074E for ; Mon, 11 Oct 2010 22:21:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy4 with SMTP id 4so776682ewy.40 for ; Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:21:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=aANKS+8mT4O2eOlki5jEpe5+sDwd895F0UUhZACWqCs=; b=db3dzh7QioDHialFK4QduQbb1D2nd5TYJvlyGhcgOO0Z8rrVdbpJQdvR7WDJVPqIAu MP0e3On16eEvVA53DRTjkQjlyRAwdyZvLhsL59eB8TbM0nbBMuRCvH4XbmOImMrz3Nrc G1MMah7le6OOtoI4x9/Aso+dwuKZQWeb3NCZs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=YDQzTCfhkuSE4UZ9jVWOV71AgK36oRYtQJVQhx5RCZgXZygCshUgVQFr5a9WzCHiPv VbcPGr5WToNmIolfDdzIfg6M9xIpcjav4FIFKvP176kizs8p7k5i6e6WC2f+Cxl14kqQ QbZBlI+tWxcQj/j1/uwmYbAcvq/Jm1Mp7N5JY= Received: by 10.213.48.193 with SMTP id s1mr2077584ebf.20.1286835675338; Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:21:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-215-2-42.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.215.2.42]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id z55sm11690659eeh.3.2010.10.11.15.21.12 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:21:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "Illegal instruction" error Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 00:21:37 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.35-ck-r4; KDE/4.5.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Mark Knecht References: <201010112239.49561.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201010120021.38829.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 99e7ef21-7c96-4e05-b667-8c869abf9f50 X-Archives-Hash: 395ae5b1e9ea33a28c16a592f6cef10f Apparently, though unproven, at 23:02 on Monday 11 October 2010, Mark Knecht did opine thusly: > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Uh-oh. > > > > genlop started failing today with the mysterious error "Illegal > > instruction", and it's consistent - every time. That's all the message, > > nothing else: > > > > $ genlop -t portage > > Illegal instruction > > > > Now emerge dbus-glib fails similarly: > > > > /bin/sh: line 21: 1084 Illegal instruction /usr/bin/gtkdoc-rebase -- > > relative --dest-dir=/var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/dbus-glib-0.88/image/ > > --html- dir=${installdir} > > > > > > I don't really know where to start looking..... > > I just know Google is going to give me millions of useless hits with that > > search, but I'll hope over to b.g.o. meanwhile and poke around unless > > someone else has a better idea. > > Alan, > Consider (if possible - is this a desktop or some in service > server?) powering down your machine, reseating your memory DIMMs, > powering back up and if possible running memtest86 (assuming it's an > x86 machine) and then seeing if the error goes away. > > I've run into this a couple of times when memory problems have appeared. Yes, that was it - memtest failed almost immediately. It's my notebook, with 2 x 2G memory banks - either one in either position works fine. With both, memtest fails and always at the same place - step 48 of whatever. So I guess it's the motherboard and I'll be calling Dell Support in the morning. Am I glad the company insists we buy 3 year next-day on-site corporate support for all hardware right now? You betcha! -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com