DevIL's 1.7.8 ./configure script enables SSE, SSE2 and SSE3 instructions if supported by the compiler and unless such instructions are explicitly disabled by --disable-sse3 etc. There is not run-time check for CPU support when using these instructions - in fact it adds the -msse3 compiler option. SSE3 is not universally supported in 32-bit x86 CPUs and using affected functions such as ilConvertImage() may result in the application being terminated with the SIGILL signal on such CPUs. Re-building DevIL without SSE3 support fixes this bug - disabling SSE2 and SSE should also be considered. There is also an upstream DevIL bug report at https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3520344&group_id=4470&atid=104470 Additional info: This bug is also found in many other Linux distributions' DevIL packages: - Gentoo Linux (fixed): https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=412791 - Debian (open since over a year) http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=572954 - Ubuntu (open): https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/devil/+bug/987634 - openSUSE (open): https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=758713 - Arch Linux (open): https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/29590
Thanks for the bug report. I'm currently preparing a fixed build, fixing this by not using SSE3 (x86_64) or any SSE (ix86).
DevIL-1.7.8-9.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/DevIL-1.7.8-9.fc17
Package DevIL-1.7.8-9.fc17: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 17 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing DevIL-1.7.8-9.fc17' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-7994/DevIL-1.7.8-9.fc17 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
DevIL-1.7.8-9.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.