Help/Support Theos Illegal instruction 4 fix when running NIC

mehdiphone · May 4, 2015

Hey i have reinstalled theos on my phone because ive restored it. And iam experiencing this message "illegal instruction 4" when i try to run it with /var/theos/bin/nic.pl

Rook · May 4, 2015

Did you install all the requirements?

castix · May 4, 2015

Do the fix for 64-bit devices

mehdiphone · May 4, 2015

Did you install all the requirements?

Yep

Do the fix for 64-bit devices

Yep iam using 5S where is the fix?

Rook · May 4, 2015

Do the fix for 64-bit devices

That fix isn't required anymore. Last time I checked they had done the symlinks for 64bit iDevices.

The fix is mentioned here: http://iosgods.com/topic/656-tutorialvideo-how-to-set-up-theos-on-your-idevice-ios7ios8/

castix · May 4, 2015

You are missing an Unix package... Perl

mehdiphone · May 4, 2015

That fix isn't required anymore. Last time I checked they had done the symlinks for 64bit iDevices.The fix is mentioned here: http://iosgods.com/topic/656-tutorialvideo-how-to-set-up-theos-on-your-idevice-ios7ios8/

Yeah i had both files for 64 and not 64 but iam still having the issue

You are missing an Unix package... Perl

I have it installed lemme reinstall it

Rook · May 4, 2015

Update:

Simply install the latest version of Perl from http://coolstar.org/publicrepo

Architecture (partial) incompatibility

If you get this error while attempting to run the Theos New Instance Creator (NIC):
Illegal instruction: 4

It probably means you are using versions of tools that work on older devices but not on new ones. Read more on the issue here.
It usually affects perl and rsync (installed from the default sources), so to fix this, run these commands as root on the device using SSH or MobileTerminal:

sed -i'' 's/\x00\x30\x93\xe4/\x00\x30\x93\xe5/g;s/\x00\x30\xd3\xe4/\x00\x30\xd3\xe5/g;' /usr/bin/perl; ldid -s /usr/bin/perl
sed -i'' 's/\x00\x30\x93\xe4/\x00\x30\x93\xe5/g;s/\x00\x30\xd3\xe4/\x00\x30\xd3\xe5/g;' /usr/bin/rsync; ldid -s /usr/bin/rsync

http://iphonedevwiki.net/index.php/Theos/Setup Updated September 18, 2015 by DiDA

castix · May 4, 2015

Yeah i had both files for 64 and not 64 but iam still having the issue

I have it installed lemme reinstall it

You don't have to. Run this bash script

sed -i'' 's/\x00\x30\x93\xe4/\x00\x30\x93\xe5/g;s/\x00\x30\xd3\xe4/\x00\x30\xd3\xe5/g;' /usr/bin/perl

mehdiphone · May 4, 2015

You don't have to. Run this bash script

sed -i'' 's/\x00\x30\x93\xe4/\x00\x30\x93\xe5/g;s/\x00\x30\xd3\xe4/\x00\x30\xd3\xe5/g;' /usr/bin/perl

Architecture (partial) incompatibility

If you get this error while attempting to run the Theos New Instance Creator (NIC):

Illegal instruction: 4

It probably means you are using versions of tools that work on older devices but not on new ones. Read more on the issue here.

It usually affects perl and rsync (installed from the default sources), so to fix this, run these commands as root on the device using SSH or MobileTerminal:

sed -i'' 's/\x00\x30\x93\xe4/\x00\x30\x93\xe5/g;s/\x00\x30\xd3\xe4/\x00\x30\xd3\xe5/g;' /usr/bin/perl; ldid -s /usr/bin/perl

sed -i'' 's/\x00\x30\x93\xe4/\x00\x30\x93\xe5/g;s/\x00\x30\xd3\xe4/\x00\x30\xd3\xe5/g;' /usr/bin/rsync; ldid -s /usr/bin/rsync

http://iphonedevwiki.net/index.php/Theos/Setup

Perfect guys i appreciate