Bug#622803: /usr/bin/perf: /usr/bin/perf fails self tests

[Johan Walles <johan.walles@gmail.com>]

Package: linux-tools-2.6.38
Version: 2.6.38-3
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/perf


"perf" comes with build-in self testing facility, and it fails:

"
johan@johansdator:~$ sudo perf test
[sudo] password for johan: 
 1: vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms: FAILED!

 2: detect open syscall event: FAILED!

 3: detect open syscall event on all cpus: FAILED!

johan@johansdator:~$ 
"

I don't know how much this matters in practice.

This is with perf_2.6.38.

  Regards //Johan

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=sv_SE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages linux-tools-2.6.38 depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-11  Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdw1                        0.152-1    library that provides access to th
ii  libelf1                       0.152-1    library to read and write ELF file
ii  libnewt0.52                   0.52.11-2  Not Erik's Windowing Toolkit - tex
ii  libperl5.10                   5.10.1-19  shared Perl library
ii  libpython2.6                  2.6.6-8+b1 Shared Python runtime library (ver
ii  libslang2                     2.2.2-4    The S-Lang programming library - r
ii  perl                          5.10.1-19  Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  python                        2.6.6-12   interactive high-level object-orie
ii  python-support                1.0.11     automated rebuilding support for P

Versions of packages linux-tools-2.6.38 recommends:
ii  linux-base                    3.2        Linux image base package

Versions of packages linux-tools-2.6.38 suggests:
pn  linux-doc-2.6.38              <none>     (no description available)

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