On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Martin Rubey
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> On 21 Oct 2008 18:57:12 +0200, Martin Rubey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >
>> > As advised, I removed the broken installation I obtained via sage -upgrade
>> > and
>> > installed sage 3.1.2.
>> >
>> > Plotting worked nicely, until roughly 5 minutes ago.  Now I get:
>> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sage
>> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> > | SAGE Version 3.1.2, Release Date: 2008-09-19                       |
>> > | Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information.        |
>> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> >
>> > sage: plot(sin(x), (x,-1,1))
>> > /home/martin/sage-3.1.2-ubuntu32bit-i686-intel-i686-Linux/local/bin/sage-sage:
>> > line 215: 21171 Illegal instruction     sage-ipython "$@" -c
>> > "$SAGE_STARTUP_COMMAND;"
>>
>> The error message "Illegal instruction" means that you are using
>> a binary install of Sage that was built on a computer whose processor
>> has instructions that your computer's processor doesn't have.
>> You will likely have to build from source, or wait for somebody
>> to provide a binary for you that works on your hardware.
>
> But how come that plotting worked before?  I cannot quite believe this.
>
> Martin

Please paste the output of

   cat /proc/cpuinfo

into an email response.    This will contain a list of instruction
sets supported by your computer's processor.  I'll then compare
it with the list of instruction sets supported by the machine on
which that binary was built...

Thanks,

 -- William

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