> looks like your CPU does not support an instruction the library is > trying to use. Or the lib is corrupted. > > What does "cat /proc/cpuinfo" say? > > Thanks for the suggestion. I've pasted that output below. But, wouldn't a more likely cause for an illegal instruction be some bug in modperl, for example a call to an uninitialized function pointer, or the code had been over written during runtime? (All other components seem to be behaving correctly.)
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 21 model : 1 model name : AMD Opteron(TM) Processor 6238 stepping : 2 cpu MHz : 2600.008 cache size : 2048 KB fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 10 wp : yes flags : fpu tsc msr pae cx8 cmov pat clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt lm rep_good unfair_spinlock pni pclmulqdq ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes avx hypervisor lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch xop fma4 bogomips : 5200.01 TLB size : 1536 4K pages clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: processor : 1 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 21 model : 1 model name : AMD Opteron(TM) Processor 6238 stepping : 2 cpu MHz : 2600.008 cache size : 2048 KB fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 10 wp : yes flags : fpu tsc msr pae cx8 cmov pat clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt lm rep_good unfair_spinlock pni pclmulqdq ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes avx hypervisor lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch xop fma4 bogomips : 5200.01 TLB size : 1536 4K pages clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: processor : 2 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 21 model : 1 model name : AMD Opteron(TM) Processor 6238 stepping : 2 cpu MHz : 2600.008 cache size : 2048 KB fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 10 wp : yes flags : fpu tsc msr pae cx8 cmov pat clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt lm rep_good unfair_spinlock pni pclmulqdq ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes avx hypervisor lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch xop fma4 bogomips : 5200.01 TLB size : 1536 4K pages clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: processor : 3 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 21 model : 1 model name : AMD Opteron(TM) Processor 6238 stepping : 2 cpu MHz : 2600.008 cache size : 2048 KB fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 10 wp : yes flags : fpu tsc msr pae cx8 cmov pat clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt lm rep_good unfair_spinlock pni pclmulqdq ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes avx hypervisor lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch xop fma4 bogomips : 5200.01 TLB size : 1536 4K pages clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management:
