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<toothe>
Hi all.
<toothe>
I tried to run systemtap, but got some conflict errors.
<fche>
yeah fedora26 debuginfo-install is not that smart, and kernel debuginfo files can conflict across versions - until f27 methinks
<fche>
so here's the simplest thing to do: # yum erase kernel-debuginfo ... then # stap-prep again
<fche>
I'll add a blurb to stap-prep to advise about that
<toothe>
okay.
<toothe>
btw, does this work on Ubuntu based distros yet?
<fche>
# stap-prep has some apt-get logic
<toothe>
i remember it not compiling - which is why I moved to Fedora in the first place.
<fche>
which it? systemtap?
<toothe>
yes.
<fche>
I'm sure you mentioned it here, but my recollection is fuzzy. pretty sure the software can be built all over the place, but ideally the distro maintainers would do it so you don't have to.
<toothe>
yes, we had a brief convo about this
<toothe>
in short, they were using a very old version of systemtap
<toothe>
and the kernel has since changed, so there was some memory-related mismatch
<fche>
yeah, a newer version of stap is often needed for newer kernels :(
<toothe>
yes.
<toothe>
and ubuntu didn't upgrade. I submitted a bug report and ditched them.
<toothe>
even though I really prefer Ubuntu.
<fche>
may I ask why?
<toothe>
all my software is present, fedora doesn't have things like, say, a bitcoin wallet
<toothe>
also, my audio does this odd thing where it repeats randomly
<toothe>
like, maybe 0.5 seconds will repeat
<fche>
ah weird. I see some pulseaudio problems, but they're rare.
<fche>
are bitcoin wallets much smaller then ethereum ones (practically with a whole web browser0 ?
<toothe>
they're all quite large.
<fche>
hm, I guess these days there's always 'install software in form of docker container'