Re: Dump threads not positive number

"Zhaolei" <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:06:07 +0800
Newsgroups gmane.linux.kernel.tracing
Message-ID <5BFEA7FCA148491A899CBACB3E6AAEAC@zhaoleiwin>
* From: "Philby John" <[email protected]>
> Hello,
> 
> Kernel: 2.6.29-rc6
> LTTng: 0.103
> ltt-cntrl: 0.66
> lttv: 0.12.11-18022009
> Target: x86
> 
> 
> When running lttctl 
>>lttctl -n trace -d -l /mnt/debugfs/ltt -t /tmp/trace
> 
Hello, Philby John

lttctl's command arguments was changed from lttng 0.67(lttctl 0.61).
You can use lttctl --help to get detail.

Cound you try:
lttctl -Cw /tmp/trace trace

B.R.
Zhaolei

> I get the error "Dump threads not positive number". Looking at the code
> in lttctl.c sscanf is passed a string "optarg" (if the above command is
> used contains "trace") and is converted to an unsigned int to be stored
> in "opt_dump_threads" which is an unsigned int. I do not understand the
> need to convert an arbitrary string and store its value into the
> variable "opt_dump_threads"
> 
> 
> Does anyone have the same problem and a solution? What is the meaning of
> this error?
> 
> Thanks and regards,
> Philby
> 
> 
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