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Date:      Thu, 1 Sep 2011 10:23:34 -0700
From:      Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>
To:        Charlie Martin <crmartin@sgi.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kldload dtraceall exec format error
Message-ID:  <CAGH67wTCAx8PumSBzzXiwY3jSObtfz861HOXozKJJD9CJjYR1Q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4E5FB956.1020206@sgi.com>
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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. =A0This 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. =A0The file amd64/conf/GENERIC with which the kernel was
> compiled has the required lines
>
> options =A0 =A0 KDTRACE_FRAME =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0# Ensure frames are compiled=
 in
> options =A0 =A0 KDTRACE_HOOKS =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0# Kernel DTrace hooks
> options =A0 =A0 DDB_CTF =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 # 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. =A0Also, 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



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