Python Illegal Instruction On Raspberry Pi Zero

When I try to run a python script I get Illegal instruction and that's it, it doesn't give any more details so I have no idea what's going on, is there a way to find out what is ca

Solution 1:

Like @Notlikethat said, the Illegal instruction error happens when the code being executed was compiled for a different architecture, Raspberry Pi uses ARM.

That said, I found out that GObject seemed to be causing the problem. Anyway, I uninstalled every bluetooth related package I had installed and reinstall them using the raspbian repository and now the Illegal instruction is gone and the script executes correctly.

Why did this happen? Well, I have a Raspberry Pi Zero which means I don't have an Ethernet port, before I bought a WiFi dongle I installed a few packages by downloading them on my computer and storing the .deb in the SD card, of course this means I have to manually check that I'm downloading the right version of the package, I must've messed up in one of them.

Lesson learned, never try to manually install packages, let apt-get do all the work!