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I was trying to get Lennart some profile information from pulseaudio, so I followed the instructions, only to have opreport -l /usr/bin/pulseaudio tell me bfd_get_section_contents:get_debug:: Bad value Without producing any useful data. I then tried to install an unstripped pulseaudio binary to avoid problems with the separate debuginfo, and then opreport just segfaulted.
Same results here. Also, as an added bonus, oprofiled segfaulted: kernel: oprofiled[23354]: segfault at b70e104c ip 08051ac2 sp bfcfd2b0 error 4 in oprofiled[8047000+14000]
Sysprof also has problems with libbfd. See bug 468495.
Able to reproduce the problem on a kvm image. Need to force oprofile to use the timer interrupt to get some samples on the machine with the following: modprobe oprofile timer=1 Then can collect samples on the machine with: opcontrol --start Let run for a while, then: opcontrol --shutdown The following command give same message about "bfd get section...": opreport -l /lib/libc-2.8.90.so
Something has changed between oprofile 0.9.3 and 0.9.4. With same data only thing different oprofile versions. [wcohen@f10-i386 Download]$ opreport -t 5 -l /lib/libc-2.8.90.so CPU: CPU with timer interrupt, speed 0 MHz (estimated) Profiling through timer interrupt samples % symbol name 3342 38.2205 memcpy 2420 27.6761 re_search_internal [wcohen@f10-i386 Download]$ rpm -q oprofile oprofile-0.9.3-18.fc10.i386 [wcohen@f10-i386 Download]$ opreport -t 5 -l /lib/libc-2.8.90.so CPU: CPU with timer interrupt, speed 0 MHz (estimated) Profiling through timer interrupt bfd_get_section_contents:get_debug:: Bad value [wcohen@f10-i386 Download]$ rpm -q oprofile oprofile-0.9.4-3.fc10.i386
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle. Changing version to '10'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
I have this problem as well. Opreport doesn't work at all with -l. According to strace it's crashing while reading the binary. When no symbols in the binary: (although I have a debuginfo rpm installed that doesn't seem to be being consulted) [root@webfilter bin]# opreport -l khttpd CPU: P4 / Xeon with 2 hyper-threads, speed 2392.28 MHz (estimated) Counted GLOBAL_POWER_EVENTS events (time during which processor is not stopped) with a unit mask of 0x01 (mandatory) count 100000 bfd_get_section_contents:get_debug:: Bad value And now when symbols are in the binary: [root@wrjo8e1i bin]# opreport -l proxy CPU: P4 / Xeon, speed 3191.99 MHz (estimated) Counted GLOBAL_POWER_EVENTS events (time during which processor is not stopped) with a unit mask of 0x01 (mandatory) count 100000 Segmentation fault strace: ... open("/usr/local/flanker/bin/proxy", O_RDONLY) = 4 fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1280233, ...}) = 0 fcntl64(4, F_GETFL) = 0 (flags O_RDONLY) fcntl64(4, F_GETFL) = 0 (flags O_RDONLY) fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1280233, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb807d000 _llseek(4, 0, [0], SEEK_CUR) = 0 read(4, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\2\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\200\253\4\0104\0\0\0h"..., 4096) = 4096 _llseek(4, 1228800, [1228800], SEEK_SET) = 0 read(4, "\20\7\10\214\20\7\10.\23\7\10\200\23\7\10\242\20\7\10\205\21\7\10\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\242\20"..., 4096) = 4096 _llseek(4, 1232896, [1232896], SEEK_SET) = 0 _llseek(4, 1232896, [1232896], SEEK_SET) = 0 _llseek(4, 0, [0], SEEK_SET) = 0 read(4, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\2\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\200\253\4\0104\0\0\0h"..., 4096) = 4096 _llseek(4, 1228800, [1228800], SEEK_SET) = 0 read(4, "\20\7\10\214\20\7\10.\23\7\10\200\23\7\10\242\20\7\10\205\21\7\10\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\242\20"..., 4096) = 4096 _llseek(4, 0, [0], SEEK_SET) = 0 read(4, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\2\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\200\253\4\0104\0\0\0h"..., 4096) = 4096 _llseek(4, 1228800, [1228800], SEEK_SET) = 0 read(4, "\20\7\10\214\20\7\10.\23\7\10\200\23\7\10\242\20\7\10\205\21\7\10\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\242\20"..., 4096) = 4096 read(4, "\7\0\0\0\1\0\17\0{\1\0\0%\27\7\10\22\0\0\0\1\0\17\0J\1\0\0007\27\7\10\v"..., 12288) = 12288 read(4, "'\2\0\0\22\0\r\0\247b\0\0\260\5\7\10\312\0\0\0\"\0\r\0\346b\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 4096) = 4096 brk(0x8bed000) = 0x8bed000 read(4, "3BlockIteratorS0_iE12__FUNCTION__"..., 28672) = 28672 read(4, "0\0_ZNK13BlockIterator17trailing_d"..., 4096) = 2281 --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) --- +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++ oprofile-0.9.4-3.fc10.i386 binutils-2.18.50.0.9-7.fc10.i386
What's strange is rebuilding the src rpm manually (not installing all dependencies, just binutils and popt devel) creates an opreport that doesn't crash. I did rpmbuild -bp --nodeps oprofile.spec, then ./configure --with-linux=/usr/src/kernels/2.6.27.9-159.ns2.fc10.i686/ --prefix=/usr && make
(In reply to comment #7) > What's strange is rebuilding the src rpm manually (not installing all > dependencies, just binutils and popt devel) creates an opreport that doesn't > crash. > > I did rpmbuild -bp --nodeps oprofile.spec, then ./configure > --with-linux=/usr/src/kernels/2.6.27.9-159.ns2.fc10.i686/ --prefix=/usr && make You verified that just building it with all the buildrequires installed generated a opreport that didn't work? If that is the case, then there is something related to the configuration. Here are all the build requires in oprofile.spec: BuildRequires: qt3-devel BuildRequires: libxslt BuildRequires: docbook-style-xsl BuildRequires: docbook-utils BuildRequires: elinks BuildRequires: gtk2-devel BuildRequires: automake BuildRequires: libtool BuildRequires: binutils-devel BuildRequires: popt-devel BuildRequires: java-devel BuildRequires: jpackage-utils BuildRequires: java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel Which of these are these buildrequires are not installed on the machine for the successful version? Should be able to manually disable features and find out which one is causing the problem.
I noticed that I am not seeing the problem on a "yum update"d f10 or rawhide machine. Could you check whether the regular oprofile rpm works in that environment? If oprofile does work on an "yum update" machine, that would point to an issue with one of the shared libraries.
I'm seeing this bug here on a fully updated machine: Starting program: /usr/bin/opreport -d warning: [vdso] (tgid:14255 range:0x110000-0x111000) could not be found. CPU: P4 / Xeon with 2 hyper-threads, speed 2792.94 MHz (estimated) Counted GLOBAL_POWER_EVENTS events (time during which processor is not stopped) with a unit mask of 0x01 (mandatory) count 100000 Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x080c99f8 in interesting_symbol (sym=0x81ec288) at bfd_support.cpp:343 343 if (!(sym->section->flags & SEC_CODE)) (gdb) bt #0 0x080c99f8 in interesting_symbol (sym=0x81ec288) at bfd_support.cpp:343 #1 0x080c4bad in op_bfd::get_symbols (this=0xbffff3d4, symbols=@0xbffff368) at op_bfd.cpp:217 #2 0x080c5c58 in op_bfd (this=0xbffff3d4, fname=@0x81d0ee0, symbol_filter=@0x81bce64, extra_images=@0xbffff540, ok=@0xbffff4c6) at op_bfd.cpp:171 #3 0x0809400a in populate_for_image (samples=@0xbffff51c, ip=@0x81d0ee0, symbol_filter=@0x81bce64, has_debug_info=0x0) at populate.cpp:70 #4 0x08055c16 in opreport (spec=@0xbffff644) at opreport.cpp:576 #5 0x08063611 in run_pp_tool (argc=2, argv=0xbffff734, fct=0x8055673 <opreport>) at common_option.cpp:210 #6 0x08053d18 in main (argc=2, argv=0xbffff734) at opreport.cpp:590 This seems vaguely similar: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1921984&group_id=16191&atid=116191
I can confirm that after rebuilding OProfile as described in Karl Pickett comment #c7 opreport works. But there is another problem - no callgraphs. -c2 is passed to opcontrol, but still every function is reported being caller if itself. KGDB can backtrace the kernel, so frame pointers should be there. The system is current Rawhide.
I can't confirm that it works with F11 see bug #489732 The error message (bfd_get_section_contents:get_debug:: Bad value ) disappears but now opreport segfaults.
I don't get a segfault with oprofile-0.9.4-3.fc10.i386 but the following message: bfd_get_section_contents:get_debug:: Bad value I am running rawhide with latest updates.
Please try to follow the steps suggested in comment #7
I was getting the "bfd_get_section_contents:get_debug:: Bad value" error with oprofile-0.9.4-3.fc10.i386. I've rebuilt oprofile as a scratch build on koji (http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1277734) and the problem was solved. Just rebuilding oprofile on dist-f10 should solve the issue, but investigating if there is a broken-ABI issue on some library would be interesting.
This problem appears to be caused by a problem in a header file, <bfd.h>, that was available when the package was previously built. Oprofile has been rebuilt with a newer version of binutils-devel that has the corrected file. This seems to only affect i386 machines. Could someone with a f10 on a i386 check the problem is resolved with the new oprofile build available from: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=97193
oprofile-0.9.4-6.fc10 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/oprofile-0.9.4-6.fc10
oprofile-0.9.4-6.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update oprofile'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2009-3558
The build in comment 16 works on my test box. Yay!
oprofile-0.9.4-6.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.