[news.eclipse.technology.linuxtools] Re: OProfile on openSUSE 11.1

[ksebasti@xxxxxxxxxx (Kent Sebastian)]

Hello,

Just to be sure, did you run the install script (install.sh) in the 
org.eclipse.linuxtools.oprofile.core_0.1.0.200901141551/natives/linux/scripts 
directory? I imagine this extra non-standard step is going to cause a lot 
of problems for users of this plugin..

Axel Mueller wrote:
> I also had problems with OProfile plugin on Gentoo. 
> - no events are shown in the run configuration

Was there an error dialog before opening the run config? Try going into 
the eclipse plugin directory, look for a dir named 
org.eclipse.linuxtools.oprofile.core.linux.x86 (or x86_64), then into 
os/linux/x86(_64) and run `./opxml info`. Does it spew some XML or give an 
error message?

> - I can start the profiler (verified with opcontrol --status in an 
> external console) but I do not see any results in Eclipse (the directory 
> /var/lib/oprofile/samples/current is filled with samples info). The 
> OProfile view is completely empty!

The view will only populate after a launch from within eclipse, or by 
clicking Refresh View in the view's toolbar menu. If samples exist and a 
Refresh View doesn't populate it, there's a big problem :) In the same 
directory as above, try running `./opxml model-data <event> current` and 
see if there is an error message.


This is odd also because both of these errors should have sent up error 
dialogs...

> The Eclipse log shows some errors:
> Unhandled event loop exception
> java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Argument cannot be null
..

Now this one is curious :) but I imagine it stems from the same source as 
the other issues.


Thanks for trying out the plugin :) let me know your results and we'll try 
to get this working for you

-Kent