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Re: illegal hardware instruction



On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 04:07:14PM -0500, Jason Wojciechowski wrote:
> I was playing with adonthell when my display froze up.  It was totally
> unresponsive, and I didn't have a way to ssh in, so I had to manually
> turn the machine off and then back on.  Now, trying to ssh gives
> 
> 	jason@inj ( jason ) 15:57$ ssh stout
> 	zsh: illegal hardware instruction  ssh stout
> 
> The same happens if I try to tell sshd to start.
> 
> Everything else that I've tried thus far (from galeon to sylpheed to
> the other daemons like apache) works, except for fetchmail when I tell
> it to use ssl.  If I tell it to work unencrypted, it works just fine.
> Otherwise, I get the same message as above.
> 
> The kernel is 2.4.19, compiled using make-kpkg.  I'm pretty sure I
> don't have anything exotic going on, either in the kernel (no patches
> or anything) or the hardware (it's still the same as the vendor gave
> it to me 3 years ago, a K6-2 450, 96 MB RAM Compaq).  I'm 99% certain
> it's the same kernel image now that I was using before the crash, but
> I'm a little sloppy like that - I don't really remember.
> 
> I'm sure more information would help anyone who tries to help me, but
> I'm not sure where to start.  New kernel image?  Different kernel
> version?  Is it a kernel problem at all?  I tried removing and then
> reinstalling ssh, but that hasn't done anything.  A google/linux
> search turned up an argument between Linus and Alan Cox on some
> mailing list, but nothing else of note.

Try reinstalling the openssl package?  Since both programs that are acting up are ssl enabled but non-ssl programs are starting up fine.



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