From 798ac71922154da8172a9f8c860571d16c050ff7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:09:35 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] man error::buildid: expand blurbage --- man/error::buildid.7stap | 13 +++++++------ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/man/error::buildid.7stap b/man/error::buildid.7stap index e796f5ba8..861769823 100644 --- a/man/error::buildid.7stap +++ b/man/error::buildid.7stap @@ -63,12 +63,13 @@ A build-id mismatch could be caused by a few different situations. The main one is where the executable versions or architecture were different between the systemtap translation and execution times/places. For example, one may run a stap-server on a slightly -different version of the OS distribution. The kernel running on the -workstation may be slightly different from the version being targeted -- perhaps due to a pending kernel upgrade leaving different files on -disk versus running in memory. If your OS distribution uses separate -debuginfo packages, the split .IR .debug files may not exactly match -the main binaries. +different version of the OS distribution. Someone may have rebuilt a +new kernel image, but preserved the previous version numbers. The +kernel running on the workstation may be slightly different from the +version being targeted - perhaps due to a pending kernel upgrade +leaving different files on disk versus running in memory. If your OS +distribution uses separate debuginfo packages, the split \fI.debug\fR +files may not exactly match the main binaries. .PP -- 2.43.5