[Asterisk-Users] Newbie question. (Long)

[Jason Becker]

Roger Hill wrote:

> I've been messing with Asterisk for a couple of weeks now.
> 1.0.9 is running fine on an old laptop (300MHz, 128MB ram, Kubuntu), 
> downloaded the binary package.
> 
> Now I'm trying to put the working installation on my production server 
> along with HTTP etc.
> ( 700MHz, 256MB ram, uname -a gives "Linux coach.hillconsult.com 
> 2.6.14-1.1637_FC4 #1 Wed Nov 9 18:19:32 EST 2005 i686 i686 i386 
> GNU/Linux").
> 
> That box, until yesterday, was running Fedora core 3. I tried the 
> tarball download of 1.2.0.rc2, ran make OK, then make install, make 
> samples.
> When I tried to run Asterisk, I got (immediately) "Illegal Instruction".
> Tried on my FC4 laptop, worked just fine.
> Concluded I needed FC4, so upgraded the server yesterday. Six hours 
> later...
> Reran make clean, make...
> Same problem.
> Then tried 1.2.0; same problem.
> Then tried 1.0.9; same problem.
> Finally removed everything to do with asterisk, pulled dowm 1.2.0 tar 
> ball again, and re-installed.
> Same old problem, illegal instruction.

I suspect bad RAM. I'd memtest it.

Regards,

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Jason Becker
Director & CEO
Coalescent Systems Inc.
Enabling Open Source Telephony
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