Re: Error message "cpu_type '(null)' is not valid" with APIC enabled

[Richard H. <rh...@mi...>]

>> I'm wondering:  Looks like the userland stuff is somewhat old (CVS 
>> version around January 2004, not the official release from May 
>> 2004).  Maybe the errors are due to bugs in the userland stuff that 
>> have since been fixed?  I wonder why the Fedora crew hasn't updated 
>> the RPM...  Is there a newer RPM available somewhere?
>
> I haven't run the fc2 version of oprofile on the p6 machine I have. it 
> is mainly a RHEL3 machine with some 2.6 kernel. Which oprofile rpm are 
> you using? oprofile-0.8-0.20040121.4?  There is a newer version in 
> FC3, oprofile-0.8-20040511.12.src.rpm. You might try to build and use 
> that one. If the problem is still there file a bug report on 
> bugzilla.redhat.com.

That worked!

Yeah, I was using oprofile-0.8-0.20040121 that came with FC2.  I 
downloaded the .src.rpm of oprofile from the FC3 folders, did "rpmbuild 
--rebuild" on it, installed the .rpm it made, and everything worked!  No 
errors!  So it looks like those errors were indeed due to old userland 
binaries.

Thanks for your help!

Richard