No debugging data in vmlinux when running crash to analyze kernel panic - crash

I'm trying to analyze a Linux kernel panic on openSUSE 11.3 using kdump and the crash utility. The system is successfully creating the vmcore file, but when I go to analyze it, crash complains about the lack of symbols.
# crash -s vmlinux-2.6.34-12-desktop.gz vmcore
crash: vmlinux-2.6.34-12-desktop.gz: no debugging data available
crash: vmlinux-2.6.34-12-desktop.debug: debuginfo file not found
crash: either install the appropriate kernel debuginfo package, or
copy vmlinux-2.6.34-12-desktop.debug to this machine
The system is running a stock desktop kernel
# uname -r
2.6.34-12-desktop
and has the kernel-devel and kernel-desktop-devel packages installed. Does some other package have the debug symbols (similar to Red Hat's kernel-debuginfo rpm) or is there another approach / kernel I should be using?

The symbols for openSUSE are named similarly to Red Hat and variants (CentOS, Fedora, ...) but live in a different repository. For this example, the vmlinux symbols are in the kernel-desktop-devel-debuginfo package, but practically, you'd probably also want to grab the kernel-desktop-debuginfo for the module symbols.

Load the "kernel-debug-devel" package for your kernel.

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Is there an updated disk image binary for the x86 architecture for running gem5 in full system mode?

I am currently using the linux-x86.img which I downloaded from the documentation page for gem5 (http://www.m5sim.org/Download), but since I was not able to compile the fscanf and fopen commands on this image I was wondering if there is a more recent image which I could download and use instead.
The error message throw when trying to compile the lines with fopen and fscanf are
./obj/edgelist.o: In function loadEdgeArray': edgelist.c:(.text+0x148): undefined reference to __isoc99_fscanf'
./obj/edgelist.o: In function loadEdgeArrayInfo': edgelist.c:(.text+0x20c): undefined reference to __isoc99_fscanf'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [test] Error 1
This error is thrown when trying to compile from both from qemu as well as gem5.
Here's one setup that generates such an image with Buildroot. I'm a fan of Buildroot because it builds everything from source. I don't understand how fscanf and fopen could fail in that image, but I have tested them in the above setup and they work fine.
Boot used to work in the past, but gem5 X86 full system boot has been broken for likely easy to fix reasons for a few months now as of March 2020 on the gem5 side, although there are efforts in place to fix it, and so likely it will work again soon: https://www.gem5.org/project/2020/03/09/boot-tests.html
Other alternatives include:
https://gem5art.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ which Jason has been pushing and uses Packer to generate disk images
You can also extract working disk images from Docker: https://hub.docker.com/_/ubuntu This requires exporting them to a file to give to gem5.
It is also worth noting that when the gem5.org website migrated from the old Wiki to the new static website setup in Q1 2020, we lost the ability of doing directory listing under http://dist.gem5.org/dist/current/arm/ for some reason, and so devs were forced to list them one by one on the static website... https://www.gem5.org/documentation/general_docs/fullsystem/guest_binaries
I am not sure why the error is no longer occurring for me, but documenting the steps I went through which might have fixed something. I reinstalled Ubuntu18.04 therefore had to rebuild gem5 and I used the parsec image (http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~parsec_m5/x86root-parsec.img.bz2) referenced in this answer Booting gem5 X86 Ubuntu Full System Simulation

nv-nsight-cu-cli caused Tensorflow to fail

I've downloaded the newest Nsight Compute profiling tool and I want to use it to benchmark Tensorflow applications. The code I'm using is here. It runs perfectly fine when I execute it and when I benchmark it with nvprof ./mnist.py it had no problem at all. However, when I try to run it with command sudo ./nv-nsight-cu-cli [path to the file] I get the following error:
ImportError: libcublas.so.9.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I suspect that nv-nsight-cu-cli somehow didn't recognized the environment variable at all. Is there any fix around?
You need to search for differences in both environments:
env variables
LD_LIBRARY_PATH
/etc/ld.so.conf
/etc/ld.so.conf.d/*
cuBLAS
Is installation complete/not broken?
Is it installed at the same location on both machines?
Versions
...
You can start with locate libcublas.so on both machines to see if there's a difference. Alternatively, you can strace -f -e open the program to check where it tries to libcublas.so from.
Your error has (for now) nothing to do with GPUs: libcublas.so.9.0 can just not be found. Find it, find why Tensorflow can not find it and your problem will be solved.
It appears that GP100 is not supported by the tool at this moment.
The answer is found here:
Nsight Compute only supports Pascal (other than GP100) and later GPUs.

How to get missing modules in Ocaml?

[Solved (at bottom). installed quartz and re-installed with x11 via brew then restarted machine.]
I'm learning Ocaml and am going through these documentations pages and need to install some modules (graphics).
I'm missing a Graphics module in Ocaml. After trying to load it on toplevel (the REPL right?) with:
$ ocaml
OCaml version blahblah
# #load "graphics.cma";;
# open Graphics;;
I get the error message:
Cannot find file graphics.cma.
So I wander over to this question and after not finding the file with the command:
ls `ocamlc -where`/graphics*`
I read that this means that:
Graphics is not installed and you have to reinstall OCaml compiler
enabling Graphics.
Does this mean I have to recompile Ocaml every time I need a new module? I'm not sure what he meant by that.
Then, I tried to install Graphics with: opam install graphics.
I got this error:
This package relies on external (system) dependencies that may be missing. `opam depext lablgl.1.05' may help you find the correct installation for your system.
So I did opam depext lablgl.1.05
After this, I tried opam install graphics again, but it failed with this error:
#=== ERROR while installing graphics.1.0 ======================================#
# opam-version 1.2.2
# os darwin
# command ocamlc -custom graphics.cma -o test
# path /Users/alexanderkleinhans/.opam/system/build/graphics.1.0
# compiler system (4.02.2)
# exit-code 2
# env-file /Users/alexanderkleinhans/.opam/system/build/graphics.1.0/graphics-24451-7afd23.env
# stdout-file /Users/alexanderkleinhans/.opam/system/build/graphics.1.0/graphics-24451-7afd23.out
# stderr-file /Users/alexanderkleinhans/.opam/system/build/graphics.1.0/graphics-24451-7afd23.err
### stderr ###
# File "_none_", line 1:
# Error: Cannot find file graphics.cma
=-=- Error report -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
The following actions failed
∗ install graphics 1.0
No changes have been performed
=-=- graphics.1.0 troubleshooting -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
=> This package checks whether the Graphics library was compiled.
This error says Cannot find file graphics.cma which brings me back to this question and what the steps are to get graphics.cma (and other modules as I might need them).
I though opam was a package manager for ocaml (this install modules right?)
EDIT:
I did brew info ocaml and I did install with x11 so I though this meant I should have it...
ocaml: stable 4.04.1 (bottled), devel 4.05.0+beta3, HEAD
General purpose programming language in the ML family
https://ocaml.org/
/usr/local/Cellar/ocaml/4.04.1 (1,730 files, 194.4MB) *
Poured from bottle on 2017-06-13 at 15:23:43
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/ocaml.rb
==> Requirements
Optional: x11 ✘
==> Options
--with-flambda
Install with flambda support
--with-x11
Install with the Graphics module
--devel
Install development version 4.05.0+beta3
--HEAD
Install HEAD version
EDIT 2:
Running
brew install Caskroom/cask/xquartz
brew reinstall ocaml --with-x11
Allowed me to compile, but running gave me this fatal exception. Seems to be an X11 thing?
Fatal error: exception Graphics.Graphic_failure("Cannot open display ")
Solved
So I think the two steps that were necessary were to make sure ocaml was installed with X11. Note that `brew info ocaml` seemed to give wrong information (said it was installed with X11 but reinstall was necessary). On OSX, I also needed to install quarts.
brew install Caskroom/cask/xquartz
brew reinstall ocaml --with-x11
After this I COULD compile, but got an error on execution. This was simply solved by restarting which I read was necessary after installation of xquartz.
After that I could run fine.
The graphics module is an optional part of the base OCaml install, not an external module. This explains why you can't install it using OPAM. The OPAM module that you show is only testing whether it is installed in the current OCaml system. It can't (and hence doesn't try to) install graphics as a separate module.
For this reason, installing graphics (when it's not already installed) is unusually tricky. There's no need to recompile OCaml for installing most (if not all) other modules.
For what it's worth, I am running macOS 10.12.4, and I used "opam switch" to switch my OCaml system to the 4.03.0 release. In the resulting environment, the Graphics module is installed, and I have no trouble running the examples at the website you mention. (For the first, I see concentric red and yellow circles, for example.)
You might try doing "opam switch" to switch to a recent version of the compiler, and see if this gets things going for you. In the past I have had trouble getting Graphics to work, but it is working great for me now.

Systemtap libdwfl error on Linux

I am tying to work/setup the Systemtap tool for profiling OS procesess, on a Virtual Linux. I am using VirtualBox to run the image. Via
rpm -q kernel
and
cat /proc/version
The version obtained is:
Linux version 2.6.32-5-686 (Debian 2.6.32-48squeeze4)
I have correctly downloaded and installed the tool and wrote a simple program (.stp). However I keep getting the same error, which I have searched information in many places without success:
After executing:
sudo stap my_profiler.stp
I get:
semantic error: libdwfl failure (all kernel modules found): no error
Pass 3: translation failed. Try again with another '--vp 001' option.
According to https://sourceware.org/systemtap/SystemTap_Beginners_Guide/errors.html
⁠semantic error: libdwfl failure
There was a problem processing the debugging information. In most cases, this error results from the installation of a kernel-debuginfo package whose version does not match the probed kernel exactly. The installed kernel-debuginfo package itself may have some consistency or correctness problems.
I have found no relevant information on the "kernel-debuginfo" package. I have also tried the verbose option without benefit. I even tried with an old Snapshot of the VM. Any ideas?
The code of the .stp program I ran:
probe timer.profile{
printf("Process: %s\n", execname())
printf("Process ID: %d\n", pid())
}
Found the problem!!!! It seemed that I was using the wrong version of the Linux Kernel. I was using the default kernel supplied by the version I wrote in the question. It seems that that version (the 2.6.32-5-686 one) has problems with the debug-info so all I did was try the same with another version (the Linux version 3.9.6 with gcc version 4.7.2 Debian 4.7.2-5) and it worked without trouble :)

DllNotFoundException libpjsipDll Mono

I've a problem to execute a program with Mono in the terminal, (mono program.exe). An error appears : "System.DllNotFoundException : libpjsipDll.so "
however my library exists and I've setted my 2 environment variables : LD_LIBRARY_PATH and MONO_PATH in the directory where the file is.
I don't understand why this error occured ?
Anyone has an idea ?
I've :
ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.8, stripped (CPU architecture)
ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV),dynamically linked, not stripped (third-party lib)
I try MONO_LOG_LEVEL="debug" MONO_LOG_MASK="dll".
and I obtain an : undefined symbol : Pa_GetErrorText
I try to install PortAudio but I doesn't work always :-(
Thanks in advance.
Narglix
First of all, make sure that the letter casing is correct in that the library you are calling and the assembly on disk have the same case. Linux is picky about it.
I assume that you are using P/Invoke DLLImport? What is the actual code you are using here? You library (libpjsipDll.so) is not managed code of course.
Is not a problem about loading, is a problem about another dependency dll, just run this code and make sure the libpjsipDll.so is where the callingApp.exe is executing.
//I tried this in ubuntu $ sudo apt-get install libssl0.9.8:i386
I discovered that running my App like this:
$ MONO_LOG_LEVEL=debug mono MyApp.exe
Here is my question, where you can find adittional info:
MonoDevelop and libpjsipDll.so library on Ubuntu. System.DllNotFoundException