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Simply put, the `gavl' package needs to be recompiled with generic x86 gcc flags.

The `gavl' package, last built on 2009-01-22, causes SIGILL on my pentium-M machine. SIGILL is a rare error caused when a program tries to execute a malformed, unknown, or privileged instruction, which is usually the result of an improperly compiled binary.

In this case, I'm pretty sure that the maintainer (or whatever compiles gavl) performed the compilation with gcc instructed to tune the code to a specific CPU/architecture, thereby rendering it useless to others.

I came across this problem essentially because gstreamer was failing to initialize and reporting "Error initializing: Error re-scanning registry , child terminated by signal".

__tim at #gstreamer had me run:

gdb --args gst-launch-0.10 --gst-disable-segtrap --gst-disable-registry-fork

which produced (after running `run' and then maybe `bt' in gdb):

SIGILL in gavl_video_scale_table_init () from /usr/lib/libgavl.so.1

I then came across this thread:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=618752

in which Svenstaro mentions that recompiling gavl locally fixed the problem; Svenstaro wrote "Fixed by recompiling gavl v1.1.1 using proper -mtune settings. It appears this bugs only occurs to people with a lower CPU than the gavl maintainer."