[Pkg-erlang-devel] Bug#621872: erlang: Illegal instruction when starting erl

[Dan Greene]

Package: erlang
Version: 1:14.b.2-dfsg-2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

When starting erl, the following happens:
$ erl
Illegal instruction
$

As a result, the the program is unnusable.

In case it matters, the CPU in this machine is an
AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+
according to /proc/cpuinfo (included below).



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26custom
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages erlang depends on:
ii  erlang-appmon            1:14.b.2-dfsg-2 Erlang/OTP application monitor
ii  erlang-asn1              1:14.b.2-dfsg-2 Erlang/OTP modules for ASN.1 suppo
ii  erlang-base              1:14.b.2-dfsg-2 Erlang/OTP virtual machine and bas
ii  erlang-common-test       1:14.b.2-dfsg-2 Erlang/OTP application for automat
ii  erlang-corba             1:14.b.2-dfsg-2 Erlang/OTP applications for CORBA 
ii  erlang-crypto            1:14.b.2-dfsg-2 Erlang/OTP cryptographic modules
ii  erlang-debugger          1:14.b.2-dfsg-2 Erlang/OTP application for debuggi
ii  erlang-dev               1:14.b.2-dfsg-2 Erlang/OTP development libraries a
ii  erlang-dialyzer          1:14.b.2-dfsg-2 Erlang/OTP discrepancy analyzer ap
ii  erlang-docbuilder        1:14.b.2-dfsg-2 Erlang/OTP application for buildin
ii  erlang-edoc              1:14.b.2-dfsg-2 Erlang/OTP module for generating d
ii  erlang-erl-docgen        1:14.b.2-dfsg-2 Erlang/OTP documentation styleshee
ii  erlang-et                1:14.b.2-dfsg-2 Erlang/OTP event tracer applicatio
ii  erlang-eunit             1:14.b.2-dfsg-2 Erlang/OTP module for unit testing
ii  erlang-gs                1:14.b.2-dfsg-2 Erlang/OTP graphics system
ii  erlang-ic                1:14.b.2-dfsg-2 Erlang/OTP IDL compiler
ii  erlang-inets             1:14.b.2-dfsg-2 Erlang/OTP Internet clients and se
ii  erlang-inviso            1:14.b.2-dfsg-2 Erlang/OTP trace tool
ii  erlang-megaco            1:14.b.2-dfsg-2 Erlang/OTP implementation of Megac
ii  erlang-mnesia            1:14.b.2-dfsg-2 Erlang/OTP distributed relational/
ii  erlang-observer          1:14.b.2-dfsg-2 Erlang/OTP application for investi
ii  erlang-odbc              1:14.b.2-dfsg-2 Erlang/OTP interface to SQL databa
ii  erlang-os-mon            1:14.b.2-dfsg-2 Erlang/OTP operating system monito
ii  erlang-parsetools        1:14.b.2-dfsg-2 Erlang/OTP parsing tools
ii  erlang-percept           1:14.b.2-dfsg-2 Erlang/OTP concurrency profiling t
ii  erlang-pman              1:14.b.2-dfsg-2 Erlang/OTP process manager
ii  erlang-public-key        1:14.b.2-dfsg-2 Erlang/OTP public key infrastructu
ii  erlang-reltool           1:14.b.2-dfsg-2 Erlang/OTP release management tool
ii  erlang-runtime-tools     1:14.b.2-dfsg-2 Erlang/OTP runtime tracing/debuggi
ii  erlang-snmp              1:14.b.2-dfsg-2 Erlang/OTP SNMP applications
ii  erlang-ssh               1:14.b.2-dfsg-2 Erlang/OTP implementation of SSH p
ii  erlang-ssl               1:14.b.2-dfsg-2 Erlang/OTP implementation of SSL
ii  erlang-syntax-tools      1:14.b.2-dfsg-2 Erlang/OTP modules for handling ab
ii  erlang-test-server       1:14.b.2-dfsg-2 Erlang/OTP server for automated ap
ii  erlang-toolbar           1:14.b.2-dfsg-2 Erlang/OTP graphical toolbar
ii  erlang-tools             1:14.b.2-dfsg-2 Erlang/OTP various tools
ii  erlang-tv                1:14.b.2-dfsg-2 Erlang/OTP table viewer
ii  erlang-typer             1:14.b.2-dfsg-2 Erlang/OTP code type annotator
ii  erlang-webtool           1:14.b.2-dfsg-2 Erlang/OTP helper for web-based to
ii  erlang-wx                1:14.b.2-dfsg-2 Erlang/OTP bindings to wxWidgets
ii  erlang-xmerl             1:14.b.2-dfsg-2 Erlang/OTP XML tools

Versions of packages erlang recommends:
ii  erlang-examples          1:14.b.2-dfsg-2 Erlang/OTP application examples
pn  erlang-ic-java           <none>          (no description available)
pn  erlang-jinterface        <none>          (no description available)
pn  erlang-mode              <none>          (no description available)
ii  erlang-src               1:14.b.2-dfsg-2 Erlang/OTP applications sources

Versions of packages erlang suggests:
pn  erlang-doc               <none>          (no description available)
ii  erlang-manpages          1:14.b.2-dfsg-2 Erlang/OTP manual pages

-- no debconf information

*** /proc/cpuinfo
processor	: 0
vendor_id	: AuthenticAMD
cpu family	: 6
model		: 10
model name	: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+
stepping	: 0
cpu MHz		: 1913.169
cache size	: 512 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 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips	: 3829.84
clflush size	: 32
power management: ts