Chris, 
Can you check the versions of geometry you have installed on each, like this:
{{{
tail -1 `rosstack find geometry`/CMakeLists.txt 
}}}
To get something like this
{{{
rosbuild_make_distribution(1.1.8)
}}}

Also on all the machines can you run make test in the tf package and make sure they all pass? Or "rosmake -t tf" and make sure that it passes too.  

Tully

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Christopher Crick <chriscrick@cs.brown.edu> wrote:
Hi, Tully.

Of the three systems on which this has occurred, two are apt-based
installs of boxturtle and one comes from the svn source.  Ubuntu Karmic
in all cases.

Thanks for your help.

Chris

Chris,
How did you install boxturtle(debs vs source vs rosinstall)?  And can
you confirm that all the versions are the same?

Tully

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Christopher Crick
<chriscrick@cs.brown.edu <mailto:chriscrick@cs.brown.edu>> wrote:

   Hello.

   I have a very esoteric and difficult-to-debug problem with the tf
   stack.  To isolate what's going on, I put together the simplest possible
   package that generates the error.  Here's the executable for a
   tf_error_test package, which depends on roscpp, rospy and tf.  On _some_
   machines in our lab, the following code causes an error:

   import roslib; roslib.load_manifest('tf_error_test')
   import rospy
   import tf

   rospy.init_node('tf_error_test')
   listener = tf.TransformListener()

   while True:
      pass

   'rosrun tf_error_test tf_error_test.py' will yield
   '/opt/ros/boxturtle/ros/bin/rosrun: line 35: 10288 Illegal
   instruction     $exepath "$@"'

   This happens on several machines, but not all of them.  On one system,
   the problem went away when Ubuntu and ROS were both entirely
   reinstalled, but for obvious reasons I'd prefer knowing what's going
   wrong to blindly nuking computers.  Does anybody have any suggestions,
   or has anyone encountered this problem before?  I'm using a stock
   boxturtle install of ROS on an Ubuntu 9.10 operating system.

   Thanks.

   Chris
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