This bug has been copied from bug #553745 and has been proposed to be backported to 4.8 z-stream (EUS).
*** Bug 582902 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 582906 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Committed in 89.0.25.
Hopefully the oprofile userspace gets updated as a z-stream also, otherwise it won't be as useful.
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0394.html
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