Strange problem with stap errors

[David Smith]

On 08/06/2010 08:13 AM, Rob Donovan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Forgive me, IÂ’m very new to stap, so I may be doing something silly :)
> 
> IÂ’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 IÂ’ve done to get this to happen?

Hmm.  This might be cache corruption.  Try removing ~/.systemtap/cache
and try again.

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