Illegal Instructions
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.
apt-get update completes fine, but running apt-get dist-upgrade to
complete the uncompleted installs produces:
ranum:/home/madmac# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back
apache2-common apache2-mpm-prefork
3 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
11 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 1797kB/3368kB of archives. After unpacking 32.8kB will be
freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org testing/main libssl0.9.7 0.9.7c-1
[1797kB]
Fetched 1797kB in 31s
(56.3kB/s)
(Reading database ... 18534 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace ssh 1:3.4p1-1 (using
.../ssh_1%3a3.4p1-1.woody.3_sparc.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/ssh_1%3a3.4p1-1.woody.3_sparc.deb (--unpack):
subprocess pre-installation script killed by signal (Illegal
instruction)
Preparing to replace xlibmesa3 4.1.0-16 (using
.../xlibmesa3_4.1.0-16woody1_sparc.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement xlibmesa3 ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/xlibmesa3_4.1.0-16woody1_sparc.deb (--unpack):
dpkg: warning - old post-removal script killed by signal (Illegal
instruction)
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
subprocess post-removal script killed by signal (Illegal instruction)
Preparing to replace libssl0.9.7 0.9.7b-2 (using
.../libssl0.9.7_0.9.7c-1_sparc.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libssl0.9.7 ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/ssh_1%3a3.4p1-1.woody.3_sparc.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/xlibmesa3_4.1.0-16woody1_sparc.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
mutt runs fine, as does man.
It seems that something (a library file??) is corrupted, and generating
these illegal instructions. But how do I figure out what, and where
would I get the replacement?
TIA
madmac
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