Re: cannot start oprofiled

[William C. <wc...@re...>]

Reeve Yang wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> My system has two dual core xeon chip (so totally 4 processors), and
> I'm unable to start profiling dameon on it:
> 
> bash-2.05a# opcontrol --start
> oprofile: could not open unit mask description file
> /usr/local/share/oprofile//i386/core_2/unit_masks
> Using default event: CPU_CLK_UNHALTED:100000:0:1:1
> oprofile: could not open unit mask description file
> /usr/local/share/oprofile//i386/core_2/unit_masks
> 
> The oprofile version is 0.9.4cvs. The same oprofile works on single
> CPU system. Any advice?
> 
> Thanks.
> - Reeve

Did you do a "make install"? opcontrol looks for support files in specific 
places. Check that the files that opcontrol is looking for are installed. 
Running opcontrol/ophelp without doing the "make install" could cause that type 
of problem.

-Will
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