[pkg-crosswire-devel] Illegal instruction

Bastian Germann bage at debian.org
Sun Oct 2 18:06:13 BST 2022


Am 02.10.22 um 19:01 schrieb Teus Benschop:
> On Sun, 2 Oct 2022 at 17:25, Teus Benschop <teusjannette at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> The version of Bibledit currently in the testing distribution of Debian
>> gives a message "Illegal Instruction". It was accepted in testing after the
>> wait on Gtk was over. It depends on Gtk and families, like libgtk-3 and
>> libwebkit2gtk-4.0.
>>
>>
>> This is so weird. Installing Debian testing this time in VirtualBox, then
> installing bibledit, everything works fine. The previous time, where it
> gave "Illegal Instruction" was done on Parallels. VirtualBox works better,
> currently, in this regard, than Parallels. Yes it is weird because the
> instructions called on the CPU are generated by the program that runs, like
> Bibledit, right, not by the hypervisor used?

The instructions that are run depend on the type of hypervisor that is used.
Do you have hardware support (e.g., VT-x) enabled?
When the same program runs fine in VirtualBox then it is probably a Parallels problem.



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