Re: Fedora 7 based Systemtap LiveCD for i686 machines

[William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>]

Mike Mason wrote:
> Moving this thread to the systemtap list...
> 
> William Cohen wrote:
>> Mike Mason wrote:
>>> Hi Will,
>>>
>>> I tried the live CD on another Windows-only laptop and had no 
>>> problems rebooting back to Windows.  I did it several times.  I guess 
>>> we shouldn't worry about it for now.
>>
>> Hmmm. All the machine I have are dual boot, so I can't verify this 
>> problem. I guess we won't worry about this.
> 
> For those new to this thread, I had a problem a couple times when I ran 
> a live CD on a Windows-only system.  The live CD ran fine, but I 
> couldn't boot back to Windows.  However, my latest test worked fine.  
> We've had no problems with linux-only and dual-boot systems. We've 
> decided not to worry about this for now.  It's not clear it's a real 
> problem.  Plus it's unlikely OLS attendees will bring Windows-only laptops.
> 
>>
>>> I noticed that the sockets tapset doesn't contain the fix I made that 
>>> allows it to work with later kernels.  If we can't include a later 
>>> systemtap rpm, then I'll just update socket.stp with my examples 
>>> rpm.  Does that sound okay?  I'll also probably install the 
>>> tutorial-specific examples under /usr/share/doc/systemtap-0.5.13.  
>>> I'd like to get people used to looking there.
>>
>> Yes, just be sure to have an example that works. We can put all the 
>> examples together in an rpm.
> 
> Will do.
> 
>>
>>>
>>> I was going to ask if we could include the kernel source and cscope, 
>>> but I realize that's out of the question.  The kernel source alone is 
>>> 437 MB!
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Mike
>>
>> The source is already in the debuginfo rpm. However, I don't know 
>> about getting the cscope information in there. It isn't in an rpm. 
>> Generating the stuff on the fly probably won't work too well either.
> 
> I don't see any source coming from the debuginfo rpm.  Where is it located?

What I said wasn't quite true. The .c and .h files are around. However, the make 
and script files are not there. Take a look in /usr/src/debug/kernel-2.6.21 (or 
similar directory).

-Will