[Oisf-users] Problem when testing Suricata on an ARMv7 based board

[Anoop Saldanha]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 12:59 PM, Anoop Saldanha
<anoopsaldanha at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 11:06 PM, Peter Manev <petermanev at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Mahdi Aichouch <foxmehdi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am trying to run Suricata on an ARMv7 architecture based board.
>>>
>>> After, I had successfully cross-compiled  Suricata for my target, I tried to
>>> run Suricata on the board but I got an Aborted fault.
>>>
>>> Below is the command that I used in my test:
>>>
>>> $> ./home/suricata/bin/suricata -c /etc/suricata/suricata.yaml -i eth0
>>> --init-errors-fatal
>>
>> Can you try adding the "-v" switch for more verbose output -
>> ./home/suricata/bin/suricata -c /etc/suricata/suricata.yaml -i eth0
>> --init-errors-fatal -v
>>
>>>
>>> [35] 1/1/1970 -- 00:02:03 - (suricata.c:1073) <Notice> (SCPrintVersion) --
>>> This is Suricata version 2.1dev (rev 86711a1)
>>> Aborted.
>>>
>>> No further message are printed on the terminal.
>>>
>>> Could someone help me in figuring out what causes this issue.
>
> Trouble with some instructions generated for your architecture most
> likely.  I would first try and make sure that I have cross compiled
> directly, and then zero in on the instructions generated by the
> compiler and make sure it is present ARMv7's ISA.
>

My previous reply - s/cross compiled directly/cross compiled correctly/g

As a later step on figuring out the instructions, you can look at the
kernel/system logs to figure out the instructions that caused the
error.

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