# Influxdb V1 python interface broken on devuan - Illegal Instruction

**URL:** <https://community.influxdata.com/t/influxdb-v1-python-interface-broken-on-devuan-illegal-instruction/58278>\
**Category:** InfluxDB 1\
**Tags:** python\
**Created:** [February 7, 2026, 4:09pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/influxdb-v1-python-interface-broken-on-devuan-illegal-instruction/58278 "2026-02-07T16:09:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Julf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Julf](https://community.influxdata.com/u/Julf)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2026, 4:09pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/influxdb-v1-python-interface-broken-on-devuan-illegal-instruction/58278/1 "2026-02-07T16:09:37Z")

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Devuan Excalibur on amd64

After the last update this simple python script:

```
#!/usr/bin/python3
from influxdb import InfluxDBClient

```

results in “Illegal instruction”.

```
Julf

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**Post date:** [February 7, 2026, 4:09pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/influxdb-v1-python-interface-broken-on-devuan-illegal-instruction/58278/2 "2026-02-07T16:09:38Z")

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**Post date:** [February 10, 2026, 12:11pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/influxdb-v1-python-interface-broken-on-devuan-illegal-instruction/58278/3 "2026-02-10T12:11:22Z")

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**Author:** ![suyash](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/suyash/32/15791_2.png) [@suyash](https://community.influxdata.com/u/suyash)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2026, 12:58pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/influxdb-v1-python-interface-broken-on-devuan-illegal-instruction/58278/4 "2026-02-10T12:58:12Z")

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Thanks for reporting this @Julf , any other information about this you can share be helpful. Do you have any other enviornment you were using and is that working fine ?

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**Author:** ![Julf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Julf](https://community.influxdata.com/u/Julf)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2026, 1:14pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/influxdb-v1-python-interface-broken-on-devuan-illegal-instruction/58278/5 "2026-02-10T13:14:24Z")

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I am running just fine on a RPi4 using Debian12 (bookworm) - but don’t want to try upgrading it in case it too breaks.