[mythtv] Illegal instruction when I run mythtv - Still not fixed

[Brent Borghese]

Recap: 
> I am trying to run the backend and frontend on different computers.
> The backend server works fine, I can do every thing on it. I am running
> the cvs from about 10 days ago. The system is running RH 8, WinTV card,
> ATI with tv-out, 1000Ghz CPU, 200GB disk. And like I siad this works
> fine.
> I then build a second computer to be my front end. It is a K6-2 500Mhz,
> running RH 8 and the same CVS version of myth.
> If I run setup or mythfrontend, I get a "Illegal instruction".

Well that still did not fix the problem.

I do get a little further, the front end now starts, schedule, fix 
conflicts and setup work.

But, when I select Watch TV I get another Illegal instruction.  

I have also reconfigured and recompiled the other pices that Myth's 
needs, with NO success.

Brent 


>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

On 2/15/03, 12:07:18 AM, Brent Borghese <brent at bborghese.com> wrote 
regarding Re: [mythtv] Illegal instruction when I run mythtv - Fixed:


> I think I found the problem.

> To get myth to run on a K6-2 CPU you need to change the settings.pro and
> /usr/lib/qt3-gcc3.2/mkspecs/default/qmake.conf

> There is a line in qmake.conf:
> QMAKE_CFLAGS_RELEASE    = -I/usr/include/fontconfig -I/usr/include/Xft2
> -O2 -march=i386 -mcpu=i686 -fno-use-cxa-atexit -fno-exceptions

> You need to change -mcpu=i686 to -mcpu=i586

> Brent



> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

> On 2/14/03, 11:25:11 PM, Brent Borghese <brent at bborghese.com> wrote
> regarding Re: [mythtv] Illegal instruction when I run mythtv:


> > I tried that.  It does not work!

> > If I change the settings.pro file to -march=k6-2 every thing that gets
> > compiled with g++ looks like it works:

> > g++ -c -pipe -Wall -W -O6 -march=k6-2 -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops
> > -fexpensive-optimizations -finline-functions -D_REENTRANT  -D_GNU_SOURCE
> > -DPREFIX=\"/usr/local\" -DEXTRA_LOCKING -DMMX -DQT_NO_DEBUG
> > -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -I/usr/local/include -I../libs
> > -I/usr/lib/qt3-gcc3.2/include -I/usr/lib/qt3-gcc3.2/mkspecs/default -o
> > main.o main.cpp

> > But, any thing compiled with gcc does not get the setting:

> > gcc -c -pipe -Wall -W -I/usr/include/fontconfig -I/usr/include/Xft2 -O2
> > -march=i386 -mcpu=i686 -fno-use-cxa-atexit -fno-exceptions  -D_GNU_SOURCE
> > -DPREFIX=\"/usr/local\" -DEXTRA_LOCKING -DMMX -I/usr/local/include
> > -I/usr/lib/qt3-gcc3.2/mkspecs/default -o dummy.o dummy.c

> > It has a setting of -mcpu=i686 that is causing the problem.

> > What do I need to do to get qmake to make Makefile's with the right
> > -march setting?

> > Thanks

> > Brent




> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

> > On 2/13/03, 11:06:32 PM, Bruce Markey <bjm at lvcm.com> wrote regarding Re:
> > [mythtv] Illegal instruction when I run mythtv:


> > > Brent Borghese wrote:
> > > ...
> > > > I then build a second computer to be my front end.   It is a K6-2 500Mhz,
> > > > running RH 8 and the same CVS version of myth.
> > > ...
> > > > If I run setup or mythfrontend, I get a "Illegal instruction".

> > > http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-17.html#ss17.1

> > > --  bjm

> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

> I am trying to run the backend and frontend on different computers.

> The backend server works fine, I can do every thing on it. I am running
> the cvs from about 10 days ago. The system is running RH 8, WinTV card,
> ATI with tv-out, 1000Ghz CPU, 200GB disk. And like I siad this works
> fine.

> I then build a second computer to be my front end. It is a K6-2 500Mhz,
> running RH 8 and the same CVS version of myth.

> On my front end computer I changed the localhost to my back end servers
> name and made sure the mysql.txt was setup and that it had access the
> back end system's mysql.

> If I run setup or mythfrontend, I get a "Illegal instruction".

> I sounds like I am compiling for the wrong cpu, I have tried to add
> -march=k6-2 in the settings.pro file, but it does not seem to work for
> me.

> Has any body seen a "Illegal instruction" error?

> And how would I force the cpu type in settings.pro?

> Thanks

> Brent



> When I run setup I get:

> Program received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction.
> [Switching to Thread 8192 (LWP 14159)]
> 0x40087a39 in ThemedMenu::ThemedMenu(MythContext*, char const*, char
> const*, QWidget*, char const*) () from /usr/local/lib/libmyth-0.8.so.0
> (gdb) bt
> #0 0x40087a39 in ThemedMenu::ThemedMenu(MythContext*, char const*, char
> const*, QWidget*, char const*) () from /usr/local/lib/libmyth-0.8.so.0
> #1 0x080ee168 in ?? ()
> #2 0x40a0a922 in main_arena () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #3 0x400a8a70 in ThemedMenu::className() const ()
> from /usr/local/lib/libmyth-0.8.so.0
> #4 0xe834245c in ?? ()
> Cannot access memory at address 0x893cec83
> (gdb)



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