For future reference and trivia purposes, Helios could you post the output 
from versioninfo() ? I'm curious what generation your CPU is that caused 
the problem.


On Wednesday, October 15, 2014 2:19:10 PM UTC-7, Elliot Saba wrote:
>
> Peter, the "stable" downloads there, are the same as what you get from the 
> http://julialang.org/downloads page. We just haven't put these "generic 
> tarball" downloads there yet as we're still ensuring we have all the kinks 
> worked out in the build process.
>
> Helios, glad it's working for you now!  I'm betting the problem here was 
> that the target CPU architecture for the Ubuntu builds was "pentium4", 
> whereas the binary I just gave you was targeted at "i686".  I've since made 
> a change in our ubuntu buildscripts, so hopefully in the future you'll be 
> able to use the PPA painlessly.
> -E
>
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Helios De Rosario <helios.d...@gmail.com 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> helios@ubuntu-pc:~/julia-c03f413bbd/bin$ ~/julia-c03f413bbd/bin/julia
>>                _
>>    _       _ _(_)_     |  A fresh approach to technical computing
>>   (_)     | (_) (_)    |  Documentation: http://docs.julialang.org
>>    _ _   _| |_  __ _   |  Type "help()" for help.
>>   | | | | | | |/ _` |  |
>>   | | |_| | | | (_| |  |  Version 0.3.1 (2014-09-21 21:30 UTC)
>>  _/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_|  |  Official http://julialang.org/ release
>> |__/                   |  i386-redhat-linux
>>
>> julia> println("Hello world!")
>> Hello world!
>>
>>
>> Success!!
>>
>> Many thanks, Elliot. That binary distribution seems to work fine in my 
>> machine. (My old history file was not compatible, but the error message the 
>> first time I started this version was helpful enough to work around it.)
>>
>> Now I can enjoy of updated Julia. :) Thanks again to all the developers 
>> for it.
>>
>> Helios
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 10:00 PM, Elliot Saba <stati...@gmail.com 
>> <javascript:>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hmmmm.  Could you try downloading this binary distribution 
>>> <http://status.julialang.org/stable/linux-i386>, unpacking it, and 
>>> seeing if it works?  It's just a `.tar.gz`, so you can just download it, 
>>> extract it, and run the julia that's inside the `bin` directory.
>>> -E
>>>
>>> On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Helios De Rosario <
>>> helios.d...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Elliot. This is what I have done, with detailed output. I hope it 
>>>> helps to understand what is happening. (My Ubuntu is in Spanish, but I 
>>>> hope 
>>>> that the Spanish output lines are understandable anyway.)
>>>>
>>>> 1. Install Julia from the PPA repo
>>>>
>>>> helios@ubuntu-pc:~$ sudo apt-get install julia
>>>> Leyendo lista de paquetes... Hecho
>>>> Creando árbol de dependencias       
>>>> Leyendo la información de estado... Hecho
>>>> Los paquetes indicados a continuación se instalaron de forma automática 
>>>> y ya no son necesarios.
>>>>   libllvm3.3 linux-headers-3.13.0-24 linux-headers-3.13.0-24-generic
>>>>   linux-image-3.13.0-24-generic linux-image-extra-3.13.0-24-generic
>>>> Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
>>>> Paquetes sugeridos:
>>>>   ess julia-doc
>>>> Se instalarán los siguientes paquetes NUEVOS:
>>>>   julia
>>>> 0 actualizados, 1 se instalarán, 0 para eliminar y 0 no actualizados.
>>>> Se necesita descargar 0 B/11,6 MB de archivos.
>>>> Se utilizarán 56,2 MB de espacio de disco adicional después de esta 
>>>> operación.
>>>> Seleccionando el paquete julia previamente no seleccionado.
>>>> (Leyendo la base de datos ... 248820 ficheros o directorios instalados 
>>>> actualmente.)
>>>> Preparing to unpack .../julia_0.3.1~trusty2_i386.deb ...
>>>> Unpacking julia (0.3.1~trusty2) ...
>>>> Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ...
>>>> Configurando julia (0.3.1~trusty2) ...
>>>> Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-0ubuntu6.3) ...
>>>>
>>>> 2. Run Julia normally:
>>>>
>>>> helios@ubuntu-pc:~$ julia
>>>> Instrucción ilegal (`core' generado)
>>>>
>>>> 3. Run Julia from gdb (thanks for the suggestion):
>>>>
>>>> helios@ubuntu-pc:~$ gdb julia
>>>> GNU gdb (Ubuntu 7.7-0ubuntu3.1) 7.7
>>>> Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>>>> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <
>>>> http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
>>>> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
>>>> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show 
>>>> copying"
>>>> and "show warranty" for details.
>>>> This GDB was configured as "i686-linux-gnu".
>>>> Type "show configuration" for configuration details.
>>>> Para las instrucciones de informe de errores, vea:
>>>> <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>.
>>>> Find the GDB manual and other documentation resources online at:
>>>> <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/documentation/>.
>>>> For help, type "help".
>>>> Type "apropos word" to search for commands related to "word"...
>>>> Leyendo símbolos desde julia...hecho.
>>>> (gdb) r
>>>> Starting program: /usr/bin/julia 
>>>> [Depuración de hilo usando libthread_db enabled]
>>>> Using host libthread_db library "/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
>>>>
>>>> Program received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction.
>>>> 0xb730f3ba in ?? () from 
>>>> /usr/bin/../lib/i386-linux-gnu/julia/libjulia.so
>>>> (gdb) bt
>>>> #0  0xb730f3ba in ?? () from 
>>>> /usr/bin/../lib/i386-linux-gnu/julia/libjulia.so
>>>> #1  0xb73111fe in ?? () from 
>>>> /usr/bin/../lib/i386-linux-gnu/julia/libjulia.so
>>>> #2  0xb7311407 in ?? () from 
>>>> /usr/bin/../lib/i386-linux-gnu/julia/libjulia.so
>>>> #3  0xb7311c4d in ?? () from 
>>>> /usr/bin/../lib/i386-linux-gnu/julia/libjulia.so
>>>> #4  0xb7311f8e in ?? () from 
>>>> /usr/bin/../lib/i386-linux-gnu/julia/libjulia.so
>>>> #5  0xb73126bf in ?? () from 
>>>> /usr/bin/../lib/i386-linux-gnu/julia/libjulia.so
>>>> #6  0xb731201e in ?? () from 
>>>> /usr/bin/../lib/i386-linux-gnu/julia/libjulia.so
>>>> #7  0xb73126bf in ?? () from 
>>>> /usr/bin/../lib/i386-linux-gnu/julia/libjulia.so
>>>> #8  0xb7312178 in ?? () from 
>>>> /usr/bin/../lib/i386-linux-gnu/julia/libjulia.so
>>>> #9  0xb731281f in ?? () from 
>>>> /usr/bin/../lib/i386-linux-gnu/julia/libjulia.so
>>>> #10 0xb73137e7 in ?? () from 
>>>> /usr/bin/../lib/i386-linux-gnu/julia/libjulia.so
>>>> #11 0xb72ab662 in jl_init_frontend () from 
>>>> /usr/bin/../lib/i386-linux-gnu/julia/libjulia.so
>>>> #12 0xb72f38a5 in julia_init () from 
>>>> /usr/bin/../lib/i386-linux-gnu/julia/libjulia.so
>>>> #13 0x08048e76 in main (argc=0, argv=0xbffff298) at repl.c:355
>>>> (gdb) q
>>>> Una sesión de depuración está activa.
>>>>
>>>>     Inferior 1 [process 4096] will be killed.
>>>>
>>>> ¿Salir de cualquier modo? (y o n) y
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> And these are the contents of /proc/cpuinfo:
>>>>
>>>> processor    : 0
>>>> vendor_id    : AuthenticAMD
>>>> cpu family    : 6
>>>> model        : 8
>>>> model name    : Unknown CPU Type
>>>> stepping    : 1
>>>> cpu MHz        : 1799.769
>>>> cache size    : 256 KB
>>>> physical id    : 0
>>>> siblings    : 1
>>>> core id        : 0
>>>> cpu cores    : 1
>>>> apicid        : 0
>>>> initial apicid    : 0
>>>> fdiv_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 sep mtrr pge mca cmov 
>>>> pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
>>>> bogomips    : 3599.53
>>>> clflush size    : 32
>>>> cache_alignment    : 32
>>>> address sizes    : 34 bits physical, 32 bits virtual
>>>> power management: ts
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If you need any further info, just ask.
>>>> Thanks and best regards
>>>> Helios
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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