Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 14:09:38 -0600 From: Charlie Martin <crmartin@sgi.com> To: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kldload dtraceall exec format error Message-ID: <4E5FE682.9020205@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <CAGH67wTCAx8PumSBzzXiwY3jSObtfz861HOXozKJJD9CJjYR1Q@mail.gmail.com> References: <4E5FB956.1020206@sgi.com> <CAGH67wTCAx8PumSBzzXiwY3jSObtfz861HOXozKJJD9CJjYR1Q@mail.gmail.com>
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okay, dmesg begins to give a clue. Here's a question: if this FreeBSD 8 is being built on a FreeBSD 7 machine, would that account for it? On 2011-09-01 11:23, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Charlie Martin<crmartin@sgi.com> wrote: >> Okay, I'll grant this is probably a horrid noob question, but then on the >> Free kernel I'm a horrid noob so I guess it makes sense. This is for >> FreeBSD >> >> FreeBSD psmdev1 8.1-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p2 >> >> per uname -a. >> >> We have a FreeBSD based product on the AMD64 architecture; I'm trying to >> enable DTrace. The file amd64/conf/GENERIC with which the kernel was >> compiled has the required lines >> >> options KDTRACE_FRAME # Ensure frames are compiled in >> options KDTRACE_HOOKS # Kernel DTrace hooks >> options DDB_CTF # for DTrace >> >> but when I try kldload dtraceall I get >> >> kldload: can't load dtraceall: Exec format error >> >> From Google I get that this probably means some mismatch in compiles, but >> I'm unclear what to look for. Also, another big part of the product, >> compiled from the same master Makefile, *does* have dtrace enabled >> successfully. >> >> Hints, suggestions, and pointers to documentation gleefully accepted. > What does dmesg say? > Thanks, > -Garrett > -- Charles R. (Charlie) Martin Senior Software Engineer SGI logo 1900 Pike Road Longmont, CO 80501 Phone: 303-532-0209 E-Mail: CRMartin@sgi.com <mailto:CRMartin@sgi.com> Website: www.sgi.com <http://www.sgi.com>;
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