Please help with error on running sudo systemctl status mongod

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As @Ramachandra_Tummala noted, ILL (“Illegal Instruction”) indicates that you are trying to run binaries in an environment where your CPU (or virtualised CPU) does not meet not meet the x86_64 microarchitecture requirements for MongoDB 5.0.

To help investigate further can you please:

  • Provide the output of /proc/cpuinfo
  • Confirm if your Ubuntu is running in a VM and if so, the host O/S and VM software versions

There are a few related discussions on the forums, for example:

Regards,
Stennie