ps - Illegal Instruction
 

Jerry Stuckle <jstuckle@attglobal.net> writes:
> I still have several problems, which may be related. The easiest one
> to find is an "Illegal Instruction" when I run a simple ps command.
> This occurs whether I run as a user or root.

So gnome starts but ps fails? Very odd. Please

1) apt-get install debsums
2) debsums

to see if any files are corrupted.


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> On Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 20:15:42 -0400 <jstuckle@attglobal.net>
>
> This is a new install of Lenny on Windows 7 Virtual PC. I basically
> took the defaults, with a couple of changes to get it to install and get
> gnome's display correct.
>
> I still have several problems, which may be related. The easiest one to
> find is an "Illegal Instruction" when I run a simple ps command. This
> occurs whether I run as a user or root.
>
> I've done a lot of looking, but don't seem to find anything similar.
> Does anyone have any ideas?
>
> I'm still pretty much a noob on Linux, so please be gentle :)
>

Have you tried any other Linux environments through your Virtual PC?

Or maybe even tried Virtual Box or VMware on Windows 7 to run Linux?

I have had sucess with both, but I never tried Microsoft's Virtual PC.


-M


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On 9/19/2010 7:15 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote:

This is a new install of Lenny on Windows 7 Virtual PC. I basically
took the defaults, with a couple of changes to get it to install and get
gnome's display correct.

I still have several problems, which may be related. The easiest one to
find is an "Illegal Instruction" when I run a simple ps command. This
occurs whether I run as a user or root.

I've done a lot of looking, but don't seem to find anything similar.
Does anyone have any ideas?

I'm still pretty much a noob on Linux, so please be gentle :)






Your problem is probably Virtual PC. Try Virtualbox (free) or VMware
server (free) or VMware Desktop (paid and kind of expensive but much
more usable for newbies than server).


I have some Virtualbox installations, and Debian---both 32-bit and
64-bit---runs great on it.






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On 9/19/2010 8:23 PM, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:

Jerry Stuckle<jstuckle@attglobal.net> writes:

I still have several problems, which may be related. The easiest one
to find is an "Illegal Instruction" when I run a simple ps command.
This occurs whether I run as a user or root.


So gnome starts but ps fails? Very odd. Please

1) apt-get install debsums
2) debsums

to see if any files are corrupted.




Hi, Timo, and thanks for responding. Yes, gnome starts, although
occasionally I get


debsums by itself found a LOT of good files, so I ran it with -s. The
only mismatch it found was on


/usr/lib/openoffice/share/config/javasettingsunopkginstall.xml.

That shouldn't be a problem.

Rerunning with -a -s added a mismatch for

/etc/console-tools/config

But I don't think that should be a problem, either.

Further testing indicates when I boot into the single user mode, ps
works fine. Also, during normal boot I found an Illegal Instruction
message for sysctl - which fails from a command line on normal boot
also, but works in single user mode.


And as to the suggestions from other users to try another VM - that's
not open for discussion unless you can tell my why the one that comes
with Windows 7 doesn't work.


Jerry


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On 9/19/2010 8:41 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote:


And as to the suggestions from other users to try another VM - that's
not open for discussion unless you can tell my why the one that comes
with Windows 7 doesn't work.


It doesn't work because it doesn't work.

Microsoft doesn't care if any OS besides a Microsoft-produced one works.
That's what Virtual PC is for, to run MS OSes.


I have tried it. It is unstable with the distributions of Linux I
tried. Debian 4,5, Ubuntu 5,6,8, Mandriva, SuSE. SuSE worked best.
Virtual PC 2004 and 2007 worked better than Windows 7.


Good luck.


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On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 19:48:49 -0500
Mark Allums <mark> wrote:

> Your problem is probably Virtual PC. Try Virtualbox (free) or VMware
> server (free) or VMware Desktop (paid and kind of expensive but much
> more usable for newbies than server).

Its a known problem. very much a known problem!

its something with the software emulation of certain bits of
hardware... From what I know.

ps - Illegal Instruction
 

On 9/19/2010 10:00 PM, Mark Allums wrote:

On 9/19/2010 8:41 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote:


And as to the suggestions from other users to try another VM - that's
not open for discussion unless you can tell my why the one that comes
with Windows 7 doesn't work.


It doesn't work because it doesn't work.

Microsoft doesn't care if any OS besides a Microsoft-produced one works.
That's what Virtual PC is for, to run MS OSes.

I have tried it. It is unstable with the distributions of Linux I tried.
Debian 4,5, Ubuntu 5,6,8, Mandriva, SuSE. SuSE worked best. Virtual PC
2004 and 2007 worked better than Windows 7.

Good luck.




As I said - unless you can tell me WHY it doesn't work, it's not open
for discussion. The fact you tried it with one distro and don't like
Microsoft are NOT valid reasons.



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On 9/19/2010 10:11 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote:



As I said - unless you can tell me WHY it doesn't work, it's not open
for discussion. The fact you tried it with one distro and don't like
Microsoft are NOT valid reasons.



I did not say I don't like Microsoft.

I tried it with seven distros. Granted, not today's distros. Well,
Lenny and six others.


If you don't want to use a non-MS product, fine. I think you are doomed
to frustration.


If you want a Microsoft product, install Server 2008 R2 and enable the
Hyper-V role. Hyper-V will run Linux and UNIX(tm).







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On 20/09/10 13:11, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> On 9/19/2010 10:00 PM, Mark Allums wrote:
>> On 9/19/2010 8:41 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>>
>>> And as to the suggestions from other users to try another VM - that's
>>> not open for discussion unless you can tell my why the one that comes
>>> with Windows 7 doesn't work.
>>
>> It doesn't work because it doesn't work.
>>
>> Microsoft doesn't care if any OS besides a Microsoft-produced one works.
>> That's what Virtual PC is for, to run MS OSes.
>>
>> I have tried it. It is unstable with the distributions of Linux I tried.
>> Debian 4,5, Ubuntu 5,6,8, Mandriva, SuSE. SuSE worked best. Virtual PC
>> 2004 and 2007 worked better than Windows 7.
>>
>> Good luck.
>>
>>
>
> As I said - unless you can tell me WHY it doesn't work, it's not open
> for discussion. The fact you tried it with one distro and don't like
> Microsoft are NOT valid reasons.
>
>
A couple of points (please bear with me Jerry).
You don't tell us whether your CPU support hardware virtualization
(could be important)
You don't tell us anything about how you have Virtual PC configured for
Lenny
The suggestion that you try VirtualBox could be misinterpreted to mean:-
Microsoft sucks, which would be wrong. It's suggested because:-
A. it'll give another lot of data that may help resolve the problem with
Virtual PC
B. Some of us "know" that the Virtual PC that is bundled with Windows 7
has been optimised to run earlier versions of Windows ('cause we
searched the Microsoft Knowledge Base).
C. Not m/any(?) on this list have experience with Linux under Windows 7
Virtual PC *because it does not* natively support Linux

That said - earlier versions of Virtual PC have supported Linux - it is
possible that Windows 7 Virtual PC can be made to support Linux...
First I suggest you confirm that your CPU does support hardware
virtualization (not necessary to run Linux in a VM, maybe critical to
Virtual PC).
Let us know what configuration you are using in Virtual PC.

Cheers

PS. scroll down to the section labelled "Supported Operating Systems"
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/support/requirements.aspx

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On 20/09/10 10:15, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> This is a new install of Lenny on Windows 7 Virtual PC. I basically
> took the defaults, with a couple of changes to get it to install and
> get gnome's display correct.
>
> I still have several problems, which may be related. The easiest one
> to find is an "Illegal Instruction" when I run a simple ps command.
> This occurs whether I run as a user or root.
>
> I've done a lot of looking, but don't seem to find anything similar.
> Does anyone have any ideas?
>
> I'm still pretty much a noob on Linux, so please be gentle :)
>
> TIA.
>
> Jerry
>
>
This thread describes getting Ubuntu running in Windows 7 Virtual PC,
the information "may" be useful to you.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1466888


Cheers

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