[ltt-dev] Fwd: Re: Lttng and Tiny Core?

Medved, Michael medvedm at ZIN-TECH.COM
Fri Aug 20 15:32:54 EDT 2010


Per Mathieu's email, I'm moving my question to this mailing list.

In response to his question - I've already built the tiny core 2.6.33.3 kernel and installed it and it seems to work just fine.  So when I drop the patch into this build is when things start going awry.  

The 2.6.33 (already patched for TC) can be had here:  

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/3.x/release/src/kernel/

M

-------- Original Message -------- 
Subject: 	Re: Lttng and Tiny Core?	 
Date: 	Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:57:13 -0400	 
From: 	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers at efficios.com> <mailto:mathieu.desnoyers at efficios.com> 	 
To: 	Medved, Michael <medvedm at ZIN-TECH.COM> <mailto:medvedm at ZIN-TECH.COM> 	 


* Medved, Michael (medvedm at ZIN-TECH.COM) wrote:
> Hi Mathieu-
> 
> I'm a NASA contractor and I'd like to us lttng to do some 
> tracing/profiling of some applications I'm writing for the ISS.  I'm 
> using a linux distro called tiny core, and have successfully gotten the 
> kernel to compile with the lttng patches applied (to a 2.6.33.3 kernel), 
> but when I boot it, it doesn't go to the desktop like usual.  Instead it 
> spits out a bunch of information (hex numbers, modprobe stuff, etc) and 
> then goes to a blank line with no cursor, and it doesn't matter what I 
> type, nothing happens.  Interestingly, if I put in a USB stick it spits 
> out a bunch of info about it.  I compiled everything from that version 
> of lttng (.213) into the kernel (none as modules).
> 
> I didn't see any forums on the lttng website or any good place to ask my 
> question, so I thought I'd drop you an email and see if you can point me 
> in the right direction?

Usually these questions go through the mailing list,
ltt-dev at lists.casi.polymtl.ca.

You should probably try booting your kernel without the lttng patches applied to
make sure it's not just a matter of a missing driver (e.g. proprietary nvidia
?) from your kernel per se.

The problem may not even be related to lttng, so it would be good to check that
first. So you should try a 2.6.33.3 kernel without lttng applied.

Thanks,

Mathieu

> 
> Thanks!
> M

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Mathieu Desnoyers
Operating System Efficiency R&D Consultant
EfficiOS Inc.
http://www.efficios.com




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