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From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
To: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@kdab.com>
Cc: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: perf trace: Problems initializing symbol libraries!
Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 15:10:44 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160512181044.GK20258@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2323271.hRPH2PSKxc@milian-kdab2>

Em Thu, May 12, 2016 at 02:05:35PM +0200, Milian Wolff escreveu:
> I'm getting the following error when trying to run `perf trace` built from 
> acme's perf/core branch on an Ubuntu 16.04 machine:
 
> $ perf trace
> Problems initializing symbol libraries!
 
> strace shows this at the end:
 
> ...
> lstat("/proc", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0555, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
> lstat("/proc/kallsyms", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
> write(2, "Problems initializing symbol lib"..., 40Problems initializing symbol 
> libraries!
> ) = 40
> exit_group(244) 
 
> Is something wrong with my /proc/kallsyms? Can someone tell me what the 
> problems are that are being encountered?

Does it work as root?

What is the value of /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict?

Need to improve that message :-\

- Arnaldo

  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-12 18:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-12 12:05 perf trace: Problems initializing symbol libraries! Milian Wolff
2016-05-12 18:10 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]
2016-05-16 11:31   ` Milian Wolff
2016-05-16 13:15     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-05-16 20:13     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-05-17  7:51       ` Milian Wolff
2016-05-17 15:06         ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-05-23 10:05           ` Milian Wolff

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