R help - Sep 2003 - Illegal instruction - R 1.7.1 under RH 9 Intel

I installed R 1.7.1 on my intel desktop (RH 9) without any problems.  I 
installed the same binary (R-1.7.1-1.i386.rpm) on my Toshiba Satellite 
2535cds (RH 9). R starts as usual all the way to how to quit then prints:

Illegal instruction

and exits to the shell prompt. I also had installed the patched readline 
rpm.

How can I fix this? I've never had a problem running R before on the laptop.

Rick B.

We've seen things like this on RH, and it boiled down to the exact state
of the updates on different systems.  Indeed, we currently have a
situation that R compiled on server A will crash on one of servers B or C,
for any choice of A amongst the three servers.  (Fortunately R compiled on
D works on all of A B C.)  All the machines concerned are dual PIIIs.

We are in the process of ensuring that all our machines are patched with
exactly the same update rpms, but that is probably not the whole story as
we have encountered problems between single-processor P4 and
dual-processor PIII machines (obviously running different kernels, at the
same patch level).  (It's also a problem with 100 odd machines, many of 
which are dual-boot and rarely in Linux.)

I can only suggest you build R from the sources yourself on the laptop, 
unless Martyn has a better idea.

On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, rab wrote:
> I installed R 1.7.1 on my intel desktop (RH 9) without any problems.  I 
> installed the same binary (R-1.7.1-1.i386.rpm) on my Toshiba Satellite 
> 2535cds (RH 9). R starts as usual all the way to how to quit then prints:
> 
> Illegal instruction
> 
> and exits to the shell prompt. I also had installed the patched readline 
> rpm.
> 
> How can I fix this? I've never had a problem running R before on the
laptop.
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rab <rab at nauticom.net> writes:
> I installed R 1.7.1 on my intel desktop (RH 9) without any problems.
> I installed the same binary (R-1.7.1-1.i386.rpm) on my Toshiba
> Satellite 2535cds (RH 9). R starts as usual all the way to how to quit
> then prints:
> 
> Illegal instruction
> 
> and exits to the shell prompt. I also had installed the patched
> readline rpm.
> 
> How can I fix this? I've never had a problem running R before on the
laptop.
Couple of questions which might help us get closer to the source of
the trouble:

Does it happen if you turn off readline processing? (R --no-readline)
If so, and if you're not running the KDE konsole, you might want to
try downgrading readline to the original version. Apart from that,
could you try running under the debugger (R -d gdb) and tell us where
the crash is coming from?

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