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"Illegal Instruction" error

See original GitHub issue

Type of Raspberry Pi

PiZero W

Linux Kernel version

Linux raspberrypi 5.10.63+ #1459 Wed Oct 6 16:40:27 BST 2021 armv6l GNU/Linux

Expected behaviour

I would expect python3 to not terminate when I run the command

from luma.led_matrix.device import max7219

Actual behaviour

pi@raspberrypi:~/luma.led_matrix/examples $ python3
Python 3.9.2 (default, Mar 12 2021, 04:06:34)
[GCC 10.2.1 20210110] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from luma.led_matrix.device import max7219
Illegal instruction
pi@raspberrypi:~/luma.led_matrix/examples $ echo $?
132
pi@raspberrypi:~/luma.led_matrix/examples $

Output of pip3 list

Package         Version
--------------- ---------
cbor2           5.4.2
certifi         2020.6.20
chardet         4.0.0
colorzero       1.1
Deprecated      1.2.13
distro          1.5.0
gpiozero        1.6.2
idna            2.10
luma.core       2.3.1
luma.led-matrix 1.5.0
Pillow          9.0.0
pip             20.3.4
pyftdi          0.53.3
pyserial        3.5
python-apt      2.2.1
pyusb           1.2.1
requests        2.25.1
RPi.GPIO        0.7.0
setuptools      52.0.0
six             1.16.0
smbus2          0.4.1
spidev          3.5
ssh-import-id   5.10
urllib3         1.26.5
wheel           0.34.2
wrapt           1.13.3

When running from PIL import Image I get the same error

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Created 2 years ago
Comments:8

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StefanSchroedercommented, Jan 17, 2022

I observed the same error that @ianglennon described so well. I ran pip install “Pillow==8.4.0” as suggested. This fixes the problem. 👍

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ianglennoncommented, Jan 3, 2022

THIS IS NOT THE SAME ERROR! IT IS NOT EVEN THE SAME RPI!

I’m done.

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