On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:33 AM, Xavier <shinin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Jan de Groot<j...@jgc.homeip.net> wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 13:02 +0200, solsTiCe d'Hiver wrote: > >> > I have successfully compiled/installed and run [...] > >> you have packaged chromium but not compiled it as the PKGBUILD > >> downloaded an already compiled binary version of chrome. > >> > >> you could try with a clean config dir. backup and remove > >> ~/.config/chromium. and try again. > >> > >> may be you're missing a dependance not written in the PKGBUILD ? > >> or may be that binary chrome is not compatible with athlon ? > >> > >> that's all i can think of... > > > > SIGILL is an illegal instruction, which means the CPU can't execute the > > instruction. My guess is that Chromium uses SSE2 instructions, which are > > present on the Pentium M, but not the Athlon XP. > > > > > > that's indeed the case. > > http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxPackaging > "SSE flags > For silly reasons our default build depends on SSE, but we don't > actually need. Search base/common.gypi and patch out the -msse2 bits > before building your package. " > > http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=9007 > "Result: layout tests require SSE2, normal builds probably shouldn't > and Google Chrome > packages don't. We don't control other packages." > > Don't waste your time reading all the comments on that issue like I > just did. There are hundred of stupid users who posted their cpuinfo > (compare that to this thread where the issue was found after two posts > without much info), and some others trolling. > > Just build chromium yourself without sse2, or try to find a binary > which was compiled without it. > If I understood correctly, the .deb packages built there should now be > without sse2 : > > http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu/pool/main/c/chromium-browser Many Thanks, will try a build without sse2 Cheers, Bernie