I want to install Boinc.

[Juanito]

Immediately after you enter “boincmgr” and get the illegal instruction message enter “dmesg | tail-10” and see if that gives any clue to the problem.

[Richard Cranium]

Okay, the "knocking" of the hard drive is puzzling, but we'll leave that alone for a moment (but still...  be mentally prepared for a hard drive replacement "just in case" as the main culprits of knocking drives are bad drives or bad power supplies.)

no no , you misunderstand, it's seemingly normal for this machine to sound like that, it's not really "banging" , it's just noticeable..

@Richard Cranium: In the meantime, please take a photo of the screen from the command below and post the results here.

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cat /proc/cpuinfoWe need the lines processor through flags at the very least.  (Processor line should contain "processor      : 0")
If you need more than one photo to accomplish this

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cat /proc/cpuinfo | more...and press the ENTER key to show the next line or SPACE bar to show the next full screen of information.

Specifically, on the flags line, you want to see whether the letters "smt" or "ht" exist.
IF SO, you need to go into BIOS and disable Hyper-Threading (HT/SMT did not exist yet with the Pentium 3 processor generation, but some motherboards which operated with EITHER P3 or P4 Socket 37x processors would have the option to enable HT/SMT with the assumption you had a P4 chip installed. Some laptops, especially ThinkPads of the age, used this "feature" as a potential "upgrade" in their sales pitch in a special line of motherboards which had removable processors...  it was rare anyone actually DID the upgrade, though, considering the amount of work/time it takes to dismantle the machine, switch processors, and put it back together.)

screenshots....

sorry for the late reply...

[Richard Cranium]

Immediately after you enter “boincmgr” and get the illegal instruction message enter “dmesg | tail-10” and see if that gives any clue to the problem.

it just says :

sh: tail-10 : not found

[Rich]

Hi Richard Cranium

...

sh: tail-10 : not found

There's a space missing in the command. It should be:

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dmesg | tail -10

[Richard Cranium]

Hi Richard Cranium

...

sh: tail-10 : not found

There's a space missing in the command. It should be:

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dmesg | tail -10

tried it again...

[Juanito]

From this:

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traps: boincmgr[6395] trap invalid opcode ip:b406acbc sp:bf984190 error:0 in libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so.37.55.8[b3b4f000+14de000]..the problem appears to be in the webkitgtk4 extension.

[Richard Cranium]

From this:

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traps: boincmgr[6395] trap invalid opcode ip:b406acbc sp:bf984190 error:0 in libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so.37.55.8[b3b4f000+14de000]..the problem appears to be in the webkitgtk4 extension.

So then... I it's safe to assume that my cpu architecture (or to say cpu related) isn't the problem , nor ram or even the installed OS version??? 

This has me more confused because , in  a previous post someone said they got it working.. (EDIT- I know a saw a post here where someone said they got it working , but -It was deleted?? , I can't find it now.)

[Juanito]

Boinc works for me - the problem is that webkitgtk throws an illegal instruction on your old cpu.

I’m currently recompiling webkitgtk to see if I can force it to respect the i486 instruction set.

[Richard Cranium]

Boinc works for me - the problem is that webkitgtk throws an illegal instruction on your old cpu.

I’m currently recompiling webkitgtk to see if I can force it to respect the i486 instruction set.

Ah ok , I'll wait a while . 

And Thank You ..

[Juanito]

Recompiled webkitgtk4 posted - I don't have an i486 to test, please update your version of webkitgtk4 and try boincmgr again.

[Richard Cranium]

Recompiled webkitgtk4 posted - I don't have an i486 to test, please update your version of webkitgtk4 and try boincmgr again.

I removed boinc all together thru the package manager, restarted and re-installed boinc , I still get the same error .

illegal instruction

I checked and the recompiled version is installed...

[Juanito]

It was webkitgtk4 you needed to reinstall, not boinc.

[Richard Cranium]

It was webkitgtk4 you needed to reinstall, not boinc.

That's what I did....   Boinc dosen't launch...

[Richard Cranium]

It was webkitgtk4 you needed to reinstall, not boinc.

new screenshot.

[Juanito]

I tried one more time.

Please use the apps gui to update webkitgtk4, reboot and test boincmgr.

If anybody knows how best to configure cmake to force i486, suggestions welcome.

I tried this using -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE:

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# the name of the target operating system
set(CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME Linux)

# Which compilers to use for C and C++
set(CMAKE_C_COMPILER /usr/local/bin/i486-linux-gnu-gcc)
set(CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER /usr/local/bin/i486-linux-gnu-g++)..but webkitgtk wouldn't configure