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| From | Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel |
| Subject | Bug#1098512: linux-perf: `perf report` shows `Cannot load tips.txt file, please install perf!` |
| Date | 2025-02-21 22:00 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <KiIhP-YAU-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <KiEHg-SN7-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <KiFMZ-Xd3-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <KiEHg-SN7-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <KiFMZ-Xd3-1@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
Cross-posted to 2 groups.
Dear Salvatore, Thank you for your prompt reply. Am 21.02.25 um 19:13 schrieb Salvatore Bonaccorso: > Control: forcemerge 1088747 1098512 > On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 06:04:40PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote: >> Package: linux-perf >> Version: 6.12.15-1 >> Severity: normal >> With >> >> $ LANG= dpkg -l linux-perf >> […] >> ii linux-perf 6.12.15-1 amd64 Performance analysis tools for Linux >> >> recording a profile and trying to show it >> >> $ sudo perf record -a -g -F 999 >> ^C[ perf record: Woken up 42 times to write data ] >> [ perf record: Captured and wrote 11,877 MB perf.data (59158 samples) ] >> >> $ sudo chown pmenzel: perf.data >> $ perf report perf.data >> >> the profile is loaded, but nothing is displayed, and only the header is >> shown, and at the bottom the message below is written: >> >> perf report` shows Cannot load tips.txt file, please install perf! >> >> The file is shipped by `linux-perf`, but it’s compressed: >> >> $ dpkg -S /usr/share/doc/linux-perf/tips.txt.gz >> linux-perf: /usr/share/doc/linux-perf/tips.txt.gz >> >> Uncompressing the file, the message is not shown anymore. Still nothing is >> shown, but that is for another bug report. > > The problem with compressed tips.txt is reported at #1088747 so > merging the two bugs. Thank you for finding this. I am sorry for causing extra work. > About not showing something, right: according to perf report -h: > > -i, --input <file> input file name > > Please try perf report -i perf.data. See as well perf-report(1). > > (or with no arguments at all to perf report in the directory where you > have your perf.data). Indeed, that did the trick. Thank you! Kind regards, Paul
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Bug#1098512: linux-perf: `perf report` shows `Cannot load tips.txt file, please install perf!` Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de> - 2025-02-21 18:10 +0100
Bug#1098512: linux-perf: `perf report` shows `Cannot load tips.txt file, please install perf!` Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> - 2025-02-21 19:20 +0100
Bug#1098512: linux-perf: `perf report` shows `Cannot load tips.txt file, please install perf!` Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de> - 2025-02-21 22:00 +0100
Processed: Re: Bug#1098512: linux-perf: `perf report` shows `Cannot load tips.txt file, please install perf!` "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2025-02-21 19:20 +0100
Processed: Re: Bug#1098512: linux-perf: `perf report` shows `Cannot load tips.txt file, please install perf!` "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2025-02-21 19:20 +0100
Bug#1098512: marked as done (linux-perf: `perf report` shows `Cannot load tips.txt file, please install perf!`) "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2025-06-28 22:00 +0200
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