VLC Illegal Instruction

[afamiglietti]

Hey Everybody,

Ever since I ran an "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" earlier today vlc has been failing with an "illegal instruction."

Anybody else experiencing this?

[SirLagz]

Sounds like you updated to the wrong arch vlc

can you paste /etc/apt/sources.list

[afamiglietti]

I had that thought too. I was using a package from deb-multimedia, I *think* because the official version had been doing exactly this when I first installed. Anyway, once I got the error, I decided to go back to the official package, so my sources list now looks like this:

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deb http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ wheezy main contrib non-free rpi$
#deb-src http://www.deb-multimedia.org sid main
#deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org wheezy main non-free

After commenting out the deb-multimedia sources, I purged vlc, did an auto-remove to pull its dependencies, and then reinstalled. Still broken.

mplayer is also broken, but omxplayer is not. I'm guessing some common dependency is broken? I removed vlc and mplayer and then did an auto-remove in the hopes of getting whatever was bad, but that still didn't fix it. Any ideas?

[SirLagz]

It's probably easier to start from scratch.
Otherwise, you could check /var/log/dpkg.log and see if you can backtrack from there as it lists all installed packages by date/time.

[afamiglietti]

Yeah, I grabbed a fresh SD card and did a new install and sure enough, installing VLC there works fine. I'd love to find the problem library and replace it, so I could use some stuff I set up on the old install, but I suppose I can always back up my home directory and migrate....

[SirLagz]

Just don't use the deb-multimedia repos again unless you are retrieving source code haha

[RSvedman]

I am in tyhe same position, having used deb instead of deb-src on the line for the multimedia repository...

unfortunately i hav einvested many hours of configuration into this raspbian install, and it is my runnning printserver...

any tips ?

[ghans]

Any Linux machine (you could use a LiveCD) can be used to backup your files. Especially the /etc directory should contain most of
your custom configuration.

ghans

[RSvedman]

That is true, but I was hoping to just reverse the latest changes to the package database and go from there. There are many hours of downloads & compiling before I have a new system with the same config configured.. I have started bringing up a second raspbian system on another pi (just got me a B+, yay!), and will just stop updating the old one until the new one is ready to take over.