libdwfl failure?

Michael K. Dolan Jr. email@michaeldolan.com
Sat Jan 14 03:11:00 GMT 2006



Stone, Joshua I wrote:

>Michael K. Dolan Jr. wrote:
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>>I get the following errors when trying to execute a tap script... this
>>happens with just about any tap file I use...
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>Likely you are missing the debuginfo for your kernel.  From the README:
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>Tips :
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>- Systemtap looks for the debug info in these locations
>  /boot/vmlinux-`uname -r`
>  /usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/`uname -r`/vmlinux
>  /lib/modules/`uname -r`/vmlinux
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>So make sure that you have vmlinux in one of those locations.
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>All- would it be hard to output a better error message, instead of "No
>such file or directory"?
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>Josh
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FYI, I got it to work using a symlink

With Gentoo, I had to drop a symlink in /lib/modules/uname -r/

vmlinux -> /usr/src/linux/vmlinux

SystemTap officially works on Gentoo. Ran a few test scripts and 
everything works.




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