Package: systemtap Priority: optional Section: devel Installed-Size: 2741 Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-disc...@lists.ubuntu.com> Architecture: amd64 Version: 2.9-2ubuntu2 Depends: systemtap-runtime (= 2.9-2ubuntu2), libavahi-client3 (>= 0.6.16), libavahi-common3 (>= 0.6.16), libc6 (>= 2.15), libdw1 (>= 0.158), libelf1 (>= 0.142), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.0), libnspr4 (>= 2:4.9-2~) | libnspr4-0d (>= 1.8.0.10), libnss3 (>= 2:3.13.4-2~) | libnss3-1d (>= 3.12.6), libsqlite3-0 (>= 3.5.9), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2), systemtap-common (= 2.9-2ubuntu2), make
SystemTap works by producing a new kernel module source, compiling the module and installing it. The current version of systemtap uses an extremely old series of kernel sources that do not work against Kernel 4.x.x. As a result, systemtap does not work AT ALL and will always produce error messages. For example: $ sudo stap -l 'kernel.function("*")' Tip: /usr/share/doc/systemtap/README.Debian should help you get started. The only solution is to upgrade to the latest version of systemtap.