Illegal instruction while upgrading to Maverick

[Alan Pope]

Hi,

On 14 October 2010 20:20, Ben Coleman <oloryn at benshome.net> wrote:
> I've got an AMD K6-2/450 system I'm upgrading from Lucid to Maverick.
> About the first thing I get after the downloads complete is a removal
> script for libc6 dying on an illegal instruction signal:
>
> Unpacking replacement libc6 ...
> dpkg: warning: old post-removal script killed by signal (Illegal
> instruction)

That looks suspiciously like bug 587186 caused by Maverick not
supporting i686-class CPUs.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eglibc/+bug/587186

I am not familiar with the AMD K6-2 range of CPUs but they look like
they might be i586 class?

Al.