OK - no war, but I don't intend to change a excelent distro just because of one missing tool. And BTW, this is a home machine and not a server.
On Wednesday 23 May 2007 15:19, Noam Meltzer wrote: > Well... No intentions to start a holy-distro-war, but I think that this can > be a good reason to move your server to a better distro. like CentOS5 if > you're you're looking for an enterprise OS, of (k)ubuntu 7.04 if you're > looking for something more dynamic. (ubuntu 6.06 LTS does not provide > systemtap to the best of my knowledge) > servers should provide a stable platform as well as a wide set of tools to > debug and explore problems, and as I see it mandriva fails to do so at the > moment. > > btw, centos has support for systemtap since 4.2. > > - Noam > > On 5/22/07, Shlomo Solomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There is no binary. I also looked in all the usual places for an > > "unofficial" > > RPM that might exist, but no luck. > > > > On Tuesday 22 May 2007 10:48, Noam Meltzer wrote: > > > what error do you get when you run it? > > > if you can find the "stap" binary, it is most likely that all you are > > > missing afterwards is the kernel debug package. > > > > > > On 5/22/07, Shlomo Solomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Sorry not to have answered earlier, but I've had a busy week at work > > > > and > > > > > > barely had time to look at my computer at home. > > > > > > > > In any case, as far as I can see, Mandriva does not support > > > > SystemTap, > > > > so > > > > > > I > > > > guess I'm back where I started. > > > > > > > > On Tuesday 22 May 2007 00:35, Noam Meltzer wrote: > > > > > any luck? > > > > > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > > > > From: Noam Meltzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > Date: May 18, 2007 9:59 PM > > > > > Subject: Re: "spontaneous" umount > > > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > Cc: linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > Basically 'mounts' just don't disappear. So, the only possible > > > > > > > > explanation > > > > > > > > > is that some task on your machine umounts your partitions. > > > > > Now, for the question "what?", I find it just the right time to > > > > > > > > experiment > > > > > > > > > with systemtap. (I truly hope that Mandriva 2007 already supports > > > > it) > > > > > > > So, please find the attached systemtap script. It will probe for > > > > > the > > > > > > > > umount > > > > > > > > > system call and will print you the pid and name of the process > > > > > umounting your partitions as well as the parent's. > > > > > See where it gets you. > > > > > > > > > > - Noam > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Shlomo Solomon > > > > http://the-solomons.net > > > > Sent by KMail (KDE 3.5.4) on LINUX Mandriva 2007 > > > > > > > > > > > > ================================================================= > > > > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > > > > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > > > > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > > Shlomo Solomon > > http://the-solomons.net > > Sent by KMail (KDE 3.5.4) on LINUX Mandriva 2007 > > > > > > ================================================================= > > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Shlomo Solomon http://the-solomons.net Sent by KMail (KDE 3.5.4) on LINUX Mandriva 2007 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
