RE: Strange problem with stap errors

["Rob Donovan" <rob at proivrc dot com>]

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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