Re: Anyone tried SystemTap with the latest RHEL5 Beta refresh

[Vara Prasad <prasadav at us dot ibm dot com>]

Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:

> Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@gmail.com> writes:
>
>  
>
> > [...]
> > Okay, I just tried it on my x86_64 RHEL5 Beta machine
> > (2.6.18-1.2714.el5) ..
> >
> > # stap iostp.stp
> > semantic error: probe point mismatch at position 1 (alternatives: end
> > submit)
> > while: resolving probe point ioblock.request
> > semantic error: libdwfl failure (dwfl_linux_kernel_report_kernel): No
> > such file or directory
> > Ensure kernel debuginfo is installed
> > [...]
> >    
>
> The key line is right there.
>  
Frank,

Badari is playing the role of a customer. His point of view is, i have 
stock RHEL 5 setup, i have not made any changes to the setup and trying 
to use systemtap and i expect it to have all the pieces needed as part 
of the default install and it should work just out of the box and it 
doesn't work as reported by him. I agree with his point of view that 
customers shouldn't be asked to jump through hoops for systemtap to 
work, any additional hurdle or setup they have to go through less 
interest they have in using our product.

bye,
Vara Prasad

> - FChE
>