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RE: Strange problem with stap errors
Hi,
Yes, it was cache corruption I guess. After removing the cache dir, it all
works fine again.
Thanks for your help,
Rob.
-----Original Message-----
From: systemtap-owner@sourceware.org [mailto:systemtap-owner@sourceware.org]
On Behalf Of David Smith
Sent: 06 August 2010 15:25
To: Rob Donovan
Cc: systemtap@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Strange problem with stap errors
On 08/06/2010 08:13 AM, Rob Donovan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Forgive me, I'm very new to stap, so I may be doing something silly :)
>
> I've been using stap for a few days now, and found it very useful for
> my performance work.
>
> However, this morning I had to reboot my Linux box, and since then
> stap has been giving me some strange errors.
When you rebooted, did you boot back into the same kernel or a different
kernel?
> For example, this simple script:
>
> probe begin {
>
> printf("started!")
>
> }
>
> Gives me the errors below.
>
> Can anyone suggest what I've done to get this to happen?
Hmm. This might be cache corruption. Try removing ~/.systemtap/cache and
try again.
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David Smith
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