Latest nightly crashes when starting on Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit

[jvns]

I just tried installing Julia for the time from the PPA

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:staticfloat/julianightlies
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:staticfloat/julia-deps
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install julia

When I try to start it, I get this error:

$ julia
OpenBLAS : Your OS does not support AVX instructions. OpenBLAS is using Nehalem kernels as a fallback, which may give poorer performance.
fatal: error thrown and no exception handler available.
exec: error -5

[staticfloat]

Can I get some more information about your machine? What CPU are you on, and where is your libpcre installed?

For reference, mine is:

$ dpkg -L libpcre3 | grep libpcre.so
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcre.so.3.13.1
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcre.so.3

Also, can you upload the output of strace julia? If it's really long, you can put it in a gist

[JeffBezanson]

maybe same issue as #3799?

[jvns]

Now when I try to start julia it works. Weird. It's possible that I updated again and the problem went away, but I don't remember upgrading julia.

Here's the info you asked for anyway:

bork@kiwi /tmp> dpkg -L libpcre3 | grep libpcre.so
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcre.so.3.13.1
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcre.so.3

Output of strace julia: http://pastebin.com/PusXAZzH

[staticfloat]

I have heard tell of a restart fixing these issues. I have no idea why that would be necessary, but more than one person has said that a restart magically fixed everything for them. Perhaps its an ldconfig problem or something that is not getting updated properly when one of the dependencies gets installed.

In any case, I'm glad it's working. Please open another issue if something goes awry again!