intermittent "operation not permitted"?

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

Nicholas Murphy <halcyonic@gmail.com> writes:

> If I'm seeing intermittent (not consistent) "operation not
> permitted" errors when trying to start a script, what is a likely
> cause of that?  [...]

Does 'dmesg' give any hints?  Can you paste somewhere output from
stap-report?  Does 'sudo modprobe SOMETHING_ELSE' work for you in
general?

Could you be experiencing https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemtap/+bug/1054274?

- FChE