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Re: SystemTap on Fedora 11


Andrew Klaassen wrote:
> --- On Tue, 2/10/09, Maynard Johnson <maynardj@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
>> From: Maynard Johnson <maynardj@us.ibm.com>
>> Subject: SystemTap on Fedora 11
>> To: systemtap@sourceware.org
>> Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2009, 1:34 PM
>> Hi,
>> I plan on doing some systemtap development on a Fedora 11
>> G5 box.  Started out by just installing the F11 systemtap
>> rpm and tried the HelloWorld example from
>> /usr/share/doc/systemtap-0.8/examples/general, but I get a
>> bunch of error messages, as follows:
>>
>> [ppcteam@localhost general]$ sudo stap -p4 helloworld.stp
>> parse error: command line argument index 1 out of range
>> [1-0]
>>         at: operator '' at
>> /usr/share/systemtap/tapset/argv.stp:15:29
>>      source:       %( $# >= 1 %? argv[1]=@1 %)
>>                                          ^
>> parse error: command line argument index 2 out of range
>> [1-0]
>>         at: operator '' at
>> /usr/share/systemtap/tapset/argv.stp:16:29
>>      source:       %( $# >= 2 %? argv[2]=@2 %)
>>
>> ..... lots more of the same kind of thing
>>
>> The verbose option doesn't help any.  I'm just
>> getting my feet wet with SystemTap, so maybe this is
>> something simple I'm missing.  Any idea what might be
>> causing this?
> 
> Looks like the script is looking for an argument.  What if you run something like this?
> 
> sudo stap -p4 helloworld.stp foo
The helloworld.meta file did not indicate an argument was needed, but I tried passing one anyway, as you suggested . . . no luck.

-Maynard
> 
> Andrew
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