oprofile-gui fails to start (missing libbfd)

I get:
wolf@wolf-desktop:~$ opreport
opreport: error while loading shared libraries: libbfd-2.19.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

/usr/lib/libbfd-2.19.1.so exists, providing a symbolic link named "libbfd-2.19.so" to it made opreport work.

oprofile 0.9.3-2ubuntu1
binutils 2.19.1-0ubuntu3

I ran into the same problem.

Same for me (oprofile-gui 0.9.3-1.1ubuntu2).
uname -a: Linux booxter-laptop 2.6.27-14-generic #1 SMP Fri Mar 13 19:54:51 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

booxter@booxter-laptop:~$ oprof_start
oprof_start: error while loading shared libraries: libbfd-2.18.0.20080103.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
booxter@booxter-laptop:~$ ls /usr/lib/libbfd-2.18.93
libbfd-2.18.93.20081009.so libbfd-2.18.93-multiarch.20081009.so
booxter@booxter-laptop:~$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libbfd-2.18.93.20081009.so /usr/lib/libbfd-2.18.0.20080103.so
[sudo] password for booxter:
booxter@booxter-laptop:~$ oprof_start
booxter@booxter-laptop:~$

Solution is to compile oprofile every time libc is upgraded.

It would nice of course that opreport&oprof_start would both use libbfd.so symlink instead of so directly. I don't know why it isn't done that way

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