It is strange to reproduce, as kudzu is a shell script. And right this boot time it gave no error. Analyzing commands, it seems that the offending command is kudzu -z || kudzu Tipically tou have sometimes the illegal option error, sometimes not, and it happens with the second kudzu in the command So I tried a two times sequence with: [root@fedora ~]# kudzu -z ||gdb kudzu GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (6.3.0.0-1.94rh) Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux-gnu"...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".

(gdb) run Starting program: /sbin/kudzu Reading symbols from shared object read from target memory...done. Loaded system supplied DSO at 0x3b4000

Program exited normally. (gdb) quit

[root@fedora ~]# kudzu -z ||gdb kudzu GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (6.3.0.0-1.94rh) Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux-gnu"...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".

(gdb) run Starting program: /sbin/kudzu Reading symbols from shared object read from target memory...done. Loaded system supplied DSO at 0x745000

Program received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction. 0x0805ee2f in run_vm86 () at lrmi.c:733 733 asm volatile ( (gdb) (gdb) quit The program is running. Exit anyway? (y or n) y

I don't know if other answers in last error could be more useful... HIH, Gianluca

2005/12/29, Gianluca Cecchi gianluca.cecchi@gmail.com:

hello, when kudzu starts it gives

Checking for hardware changes/etc/rc.d/init.d/kudzu: line 23: 3937 Illegal instruction /sbin/kudzu $KUDZU_ARGS [FAILED] in "start" function there is

/sbin/kudzu $KUDZU_ARGS -z || /sbin/kudzu $KUDZU_ARGS

instead of typical

   /usr/sbin/kudzu $KUDZU_ARGS -t 30

        if [ "$RETVAL" -eq 5 ]; then
          echo -n $"Hardware configuration timed out."
          echo -n $"Run '/usr/sbin/kudzu' from the command line to

re-detect." initlog -n kudzu -s $"Hardware configuration timed out." initlog -n kudzu -s $"Run '/usr/sbin/kudzu' from the command line to re-detect." fi

Any reason for that? Gianluca