Getting recent PMS version onto older Pentium

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Trying to get PMS running again on an older Pentium.
So far no go, because of

Dez 28 19:47:03 hst-home kernel: traps: Plex Media Serv[11812] trap **invalid opcode ip:b6abdebc sp:bfaf5c70** error:0
Dez 28 19:47:03 hst-home kernel:  in libopencv_imgproc.so.3.1[b69b1000+23b000]
Dez 28 19:47:03 hst-home sh[11800]: Illegal instruction
Dez 28 19:47:03 hst-home systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=132/n/a
Dez 28 19:47:03 hst-home systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Unit entered failed state.
Dez 28 19:47:03 hst-home systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

It sounds very similar to this case:
https://forums.plex.tv/t/pms-not-starting-after-update-to-latest-version-on-debian-9-i386/422981

My system:
hst-home:/media/disk-4/media# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 2
model name : Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU 2.80GHz
stepping : 7
microcode : 0x33
cpu MHz : 2793.104
cache size : 512 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 1
core id : 0
cpu cores : 1
apicid : 0
initial apicid : 0
fdiv_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe pebs bts cid xtpr
bugs : cpu_meltdown spectre_v1 spectre_v2 spec_store_bypass l1tf mds swapgs
bogomips : 5586.20
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 128
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 32 bits virtual
power management:

hst-home:/var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library# aptitude show libc6
Paket: libc6
Version: 2.24-11+deb9u4

Linux hst-home 4.9.0-11-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 4.9.189-3+deb9u1 (2019-09-20) i686 GNU/Linux

Is the CPU too old??? If so, any chance to get it going again? It worked on older versions quite good…
thank you in advance!

HST

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You do not say what PMS package you downloaded and installed.

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plexmediaserver_1.18.3.2156-349e9837e_i386.deb

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AFAIR, with the change to 1.18 we got a new build system, new compilers, etc.

Resulting from this, a few CPU features are now required which did not exist in these ancient Pentium 4 CPUs.
The recommendation is now an Intel Core i3 (which should both have more computing power than the P4 and be a lot less power consuming at the same time).

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If I may add. The illegal instruction is most likely coming from the SSE2 instruction set which isn’t present in all of the older Pentium CPUs.

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