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Re: Illegal Instructions



"Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com> writes:

> on Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 11:52:48AM -0500, Doug MacFarlane (madmac@orbent.com) wrote:
>> Team:
>> 
>> I'm at a loss about what is causing these, or how to fix it . . 
>> 
>> It's a Debian Sparc Stable system, Sparc 20 with 256 mb of RAM.
>> 
>> 
>> ranum:/home/madmac# ps
>> 
>> 
>> Signal 4 caught by ps (procps version 2.0.7).
>> Please send bug reports to <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
>> ranum:/home/madmac# ps -elf
>> Illegal instruction
>> ranum:/home/madmac# ps 
>> Illegal instruction
>> ranum:/home/madmac# 
>> 
>> This all started when I was about 1/2 way through a dist-upgrade, when
>> dpkg started spitting out errors with "Illegal Instructions" during
>> install or conf stages.
>
> Looks like a half-installed lib.

If that's true, the only choices would be procps or libc6.  If libc6 is
indeed corrupt, that could get interesting...

-- 
I'm sick of being the guy who eats insects and gets the funny syphilis.



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