Bug#299567: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686-smp: x86 has no uncompressed vmlinux (for oprofile)

[Michal Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz>]

2009/10/13 boss ganesh <boss.gan@gmail.com>:
> Dear sir,
> I ran your python script as
> #python vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686
>
> i got the following error
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/mnt/disk[sda4]/root/Desktop/tmp/vmlinuz/extvmlinuz.py", line 39, in
> <module>
>     vmlinux = open(sys.argv[2], 'wb')
> IndexError: list index out of range
>
> why is it so..
>

Because you did not specify where to uncompress the kernel to.

Like

python extvmlinux.py vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686 vmlinux-2.6.26-2-686

Thanks

Michal