Bug#1098512: linux-perf: `perf report` shows `Cannot load tips.txt file, please install perf!`

[Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>]

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