Blender Cycles 2.69 on Ubuntu Server 13.10 64bit I trying to render an image/animation using Amazon EC2, but Cycles rendering fails with this message:

Fra:1 Mem:17.09M (0.00M, Peak 17.09M) | Mem:0.00M, Peak:0.00M | Scene,
RenderLayer | Synchronizing object | Cube Illegal instruction (core
dumped)


For testing I used the Blender default scene, I only changed the rendering engine to Cycles. (To make sure it,s not some advanced feature that is broken).
Using the default Blender Renderer seems to work fine.

I installed the current version of Blender according to this instruction.

I start rendering using this command :  blender -noaudio -b test.blend -f 1  

Using the default version of Blender (2.66) works for the default scene, but is not compatible with the scene I want to render (results in empty images). I would prefer to render using 2.69 instead of converting my scene for compatibility with 2.66.
I figured out a way to get it to work:
Instead of using the launchpad version I downloaded the GNU/Linux version from Blender site. Using this version Cycles works fine.