Bug 44617 – Gnome will not start, crashes on startx, running in TWM says Illegal Instruction...

• Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Felix Jodoin 2004-03-13 16:22:30 UTC]

Hi, as soon as I installed gnome (from packages cd, x86, 2004.0 with kernel 2.4.24 and XFree86 4.3.0) and ran startx, It went into a black screen where it flickered, and then just quit. The only thing I got was:
SESSION_MANAGER=local/gentletux:/tmp/ICE-unix/[Numbers and such]

Waiting for X server to shut down....
If I load up TWM and run gnome-session in an xterm, it says "Illegal Instruction", and quits. Running gnome-terminal works, and gnome-panel launches (doesn't finish loading) and gives the same error.
Yes, I have tried failsafe, and yes, there are leftover folders in ICE-unix, such as gconf-felixj and orbit-felixj.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run startx (with xinitrc to say "exec gnome-session".
2.
3.
Actual Results:  
It just quit.

Expected Results:  
It should have worked.

!not on my box, so not from emerge info!
Gentoo Linux 2004.0
Linux Kernel 2.4.24 on an i686
x86 Packages cd used when installing gnome
for anything else, just ask.

[Comment 1 foser (RETIRED) 2004-03-13 16:53:39 UTC]

illegal instruction suggests you are using packages optimized for another architecture than yours. What machine are you using and what packages ?

reassign please wranglers, sounds more like a packaging issue..

[Comment 2 Felix Jodoin 2004-03-14 08:06:39 UTC]

Yes, I am using the x86 binaries on an i686... I removed them, but now even after removing the distfiles ( I am testing this on pkg-config) whenever it compiles something NEW, it says Illegal Instruction when I run the new program.

[Comment 3 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) 2004-03-15 11:27:07 UTC]

please post your 'emerge info'

[Comment 4 Felix Jodoin 2004-03-15 14:53:02 UTC]

Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13
Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.4.24)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.24 i686 Celeron (Mendocino)
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.7
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS=""
CHOST="i386-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS=""
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo ftp://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo http://212.219.247.13/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X alsa apm arts avi berkdb cdr crypt cups encode esd foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcpd truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"

[Comment 5 Benjamin Judas (RETIRED) 2004-03-22 02:10:34 UTC]

I strongly suggest using the i686-packages cd then.

[Comment 6 Yi Quang (RETIRED) 2004-04-07 16:29:29 UTC]

Can the reporter please state whether or not this is still a problem?

[Comment 7 Felix Jodoin 2004-04-07 18:59:42 UTC]

Yes, It's still a problem, even with the i686 discs.