[ut3] "Illegal Instruction"

[Apoc]Death death at apoc.org
Tue Dec 18 23:03:48 EST 2007


My Athlon XP at home runs a the linux server just fine.  Will assume  
this problem proc is a regular Athlon, therefore lacking SSE support,  
and therefore I'm SoL with running it as a UT3 server.  Oh well.

-Rob

On Dec 18, 2007, at 5:17 PM, [Apoc]Death wrote:

> I'm getting an immediate "Illegal Instruction" output in bash, and  
> nothing else.  I'm not getting any log file.
>
> e.g.:
>
> death at doomsday:~/ut3-dedicated/Binaries$ ./ut3 server -log=$HOME/ 
> log.log
> Illegal instruction
> death at doomsday:~/ut3-dedicated/Binaries$
>
> ...and log.log is never created.
>
> Is there information in /proc that might be helpful?  Here's /proc/ 
> cpuinfo:
>
> processor       : 0
> vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
> cpu family      : 6
> model           : 4
> model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
> stepping        : 4
> cpu MHz         : 1399.776
> cache size      : 256 KB
> fdiv_bug        : no
> hlt_bug         : no
> f00f_bug        : no
> coma_bug        : no
> fpu             : yes
> fpu_exception   : yes
> cpuid level     : 1
> wp              : yes
> flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge  
> mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow up
> bogomips        : 2801.59
> clflush size    : 32
>
> I note a lack of original sse in the flags list...  Could this be  
> the issue?
>
> I'll be home from work in two hours, and from there, I'll have a  
> wider variety of hardware to test on (a Core 2 Quad and a Athlon XP  
> 2800+).  I wish I knew more specific info about this system, but my  
> sysadmin threw it together quickly and didn't really know what  
> parts went in.  Helpful, yes, I know...  ;)
>
> Cheers,
>
> -Rob
>
>
> On Dec 18, 2007, at 3:32 PM, Ryan C. Gordon wrote:
>
>> [Apoc]Death wrote:
>>> I tried to run the new linux dedicated server on an Athlon and  
>>> got  "Illegal Instruction" as a result.  Was the SSE2 requirement  
>>> only  relaxed on the Windows side, or am I misremembering that  
>>> this  requirement was relaxed at all?
>>
>> I don't know if it runs on an original Athlon, but it doesn't need  
>> SSE2 now.
>>
>> Can you send me the crashlog?
>>
>> --ryan.
>>
>>
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