opreport crashes with "error: basic_string::erase"

I am using the AMD64 version of Ubuntu 8.10, and I have run into exactly the same problem.

The patch fixes it for me, although I have no idea whether there are any side effects.

Another strange issue that I observed is that I cannot compile the version for 8.10 (oprofile_0.9.3-1.1ubuntu2.dsc) on 8.10. I get

bfd_support.cpp:86: error: 'strlen' was not declared in this scope

which according to google is an issue with gcc 4.3. The source package from 9.04 to be (oprofile_0.9.3-2ubuntu1.dsc) compiles fine.

I confirm here, oprofile doesn't work for me at all on i386 due to that error:

$ sudo opcontrol --setup --no-vmlinux
$ sudo opcontrol --start

 <do things>

$ sudo opcontrol --stop
$ opreport -l
opreport error: basic_string::erase

Please fix, the package is basically unuseable. Another thing while at it is do we have a package
containing the plain "vmlinux" binary image of the kernel (the uncompressed ELF image) ? This
is what oprofile needs to be fed to be able to output kernel samples.

The patch Magnus's mentioned also fixes it for me.

curl http://launchpadlibrarian.net/20680947/anon-map-names.patch | md5sum
66a42965f1f0e160857b3def2d7a3258 -

this patch is helpfull.

This bug was fixed in the package oprofile - 0.9.4+cvs20090629-2ubuntu1

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oprofile (0.9.4+cvs20090629-2ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * Merge from debian unstable (LP: #392346), remaining changes:
    - debian/control:
      + Add LPIA architecture.
      + Build-depend on autoconf, ppu-binutils [powerpc] and quilt.
    - debian/patches/config-in-etc.patch, debian/oprofile-gui.postinst:
      + Move configuration file to /etc.
    - debian/patches/oprofile-sdk3-m4.diff:
      + Change m4 file for SDK build process.
    - debian/patches/oprofile-sdk3-stackcode.diff:
      + Add changes to allow profiling of code that the SPU runtime
        dynamically creates and runs on the stack.
    - debian/patches/unstatic_libbfd.patch:
      + Link bfd dynamically.
    - debian/rules:
      + Add patch/unpatch targets in debian/rules.
      + On powerpc configure --with-target=cell-be.
  * Changes dropped:
    - debian/patches/libc_open.patch: fixed upstream.
    - debian/patches/oprofile-sdk3-opcontrol.diff: fixed upstream.
  * Fixes LP: #310824, LP: #322074.

 -- Chris Coulson <email address hidden> Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:30:16 +0100

I am using Ubuntu 8.1 and Oprofile 0.9.5 and have the same error.

Pierre.

I am also getting the same error using Ubuntu 9.04 and Oprofile 0.9.4cvs Apr 20 2010. I can find a bunch of "{anon:/" under:
/var/lib/oprofile/samples/current/

Any clue?