Public bug reported:
== Comment: #0 - Praveen K. Pandey <praveen.pan...@in.ibm.com> - 2016-07-14
10:43:07 ==
Hi
Tried to run perf command in Ubuntu16.10 command failing with
libbfd-2.26-system.so not found .
Reproducible:
1- Install system with Ubuntu16.10
2- Install linux-tools and other package which is required by perf .
3- run perf command
Expected result :
Perf command should able to run successfully
Actual Result:
perf command failed as complaining about libbfd-2.26-system.so
LOG:
root@ltciofvtr-firestone2:~# cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu Yakkety Yak (development branch) \n \l
root@ltciofvtr-firestone2:~# uname -a
Linux ltciofvtr-firestone2 4.4.0-30-generic #49-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 1 10:00:36
UTC 2016 ppc64le ppc64le ppc64le GNU/Linux
root@ltciofvtr-firestone2:~#
root@ltciofvtr-firestone2:~# perf
/usr/lib/linux-tools/4.4.0-30-generic/perf: error while loading shared
libraries: libbfd-2.26-system.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file
or directory
root@ltciofvtr-firestone2:~# perf record ls
/usr/lib/linux-tools/4.4.0-30-generic/perf: error while loading shared
libraries: libbfd-2.26-system.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file
or directory
root@ltciofvtr-firestone2:~#
Regards
Praveen
== Comment: #3 - Chandan Kumar <ckuma...@in.ibm.com> - 2016-07-15
04:40:04 ==
perf here is looking for .so file "libbfd-2.26-system.so" however the
installed version is "libbfd-2.26.1-system.so", which is updated version
of libbfd but perf is looking for older version.
Work around is creating a symlink, which seems to be working.
==============
root@ubuntu:~# perf
/usr/lib/linux-tools/4.4.0-30-generic/perf: error while loading shared
libraries: libbfd-2.26-system.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file
or directory
root@ubuntu:~#
root@ubuntu:~# find / -iname libbfd*
/usr/lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libbfd-2.26.1-system.so
root@ubuntu:~#
root@ubuntu:~# ln -s /usr/lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libbfd-2.26.1-system.so
/usr/lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libbfd-2.26-system.so
root@ubuntu:~# ll /usr/lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libbfd-2.26*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1390504 Jun 30 03:52
/usr/lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libbfd-2.26.1-system.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 54 Jul 15 03:20
/usr/lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libbfd-2.26-system.so ->
/usr/lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libbfd-2.26.1-system.so
root@ubuntu:~# perf
usage: perf [--version] [--help] [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]
The most commonly used perf commands are:
annotate Read perf.data (created by perf record) and display
annotated code
archive Create archive with object files with build-ids found in
perf.data file
bench General framework for benchmark suites
buildid-cache Manage build-id cache.
buildid-list List the buildids in a perf.data file
data Data file related processing
diff Read perf.data files and display the differential profile
evlist List the event names in a perf.data file
inject Filter to augment the events stream with additional
information
kmem Tool to trace/measure kernel memory properties
kvm Tool to trace/measure kvm guest os
list List all symbolic event types
lock Analyze lock events
mem Profile memory accesses
record Run a command and record its profile into perf.data
report Read perf.data (created by perf record) and display the
profile
sched Tool to trace/measure scheduler properties (latencies)
script Read perf.data (created by perf record) and display trace
output
stat Run a command and gather performance counter statistics
test Runs sanity tests.
timechart Tool to visualize total system behavior during a workload
top System profiling tool.
trace strace inspired tool
probe Define new dynamic tracepoints
See 'perf help COMMAND' for more information on a specific command.
root@ubuntu:~#
root@ubuntu:~# perf record -a
^C[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.071 MB perf.data (7 samples) ]
root@ubuntu:~# perf report
root@ubuntu:~#
== Comment: #4 - Praveen K. Pandey <praveen.pan...@in.ibm.com> - 2016-07-15
04:50:39 ==
thanks Chandan !!
same issue seen in ubuntu16.04.1 as well i think fix will provided for
ubuntu16.04.1 as well
root@ubuntu:~# perf
/usr/lib/linux-tools/4.4.0-30-generic/perf: error while loading shared
libraries: libbfd-2.26-system.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file
or directory
root@ubuntu:~#
root@ubuntu:~# cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS \n \l
root@ubuntu:~# uname -a
Linux ubuntu 4.4.0-30-generic #49-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 1 10:00:36 UTC 2016
ppc64le ppc64le ppc64le GNU/Linux
root@ubuntu:~#
Regards
Praveen
** Affects: perf-tools-unstable (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Assignee: Taco Screen team (taco-screen-team)
Status: New
** Tags: architecture-ppc64le bugnameltc-143765 severity-high
targetmilestone-inin1610
** Tags added: architecture-ppc64le bugnameltc-143765 severity-high
targetmilestone-inin1610
** Changed in: ubuntu
Assignee: (unassigned) => Taco Screen team (taco-screen-team)
** Package changed: ubuntu => perf-tools-unstable (Ubuntu)
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