[mythtv-users] mythtv-setup crashes with segmentation fault or Illegal Instruction

[Michael T. Dean]

On 05/23/2009 06:01 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On my new server I got past the mysql access problems and ONE time it
> allowed me to run mythtv-setup. However now am seeing both
> mythtv-setup and mythfrontend crash with a segmentation fault message,
> and sometimes a message that just says 'Illegal Instruction'. I've
> done simple things like restarting daemons and rebooting, etc. but
> nothing so far has solved it.

Illegal instruction generally means the program was compiled for a 
similar, but not quite right, architecture--for example, compiled for 
i686 but executed on an i486 (sorry, I can't give PowerPC equivalents 
because I don't know the family).  Sounds like a compile issue.

Mike