Bcc Tools And Bpftrace Packages Misbuilt?

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After upgrading to 8.1.1911, bcc-tools and bpftrace seem to be broken. Current package versions I have: bpftrace-0.9-3.el8.x86_64 and bcc-tools-0.8.0-4.el8.x86_64

Both of these seem to be pulling in LLVM version 7, rather than the version 8 that is in 8.1.1911:

[root@localhost ~]# bpftrace bpftrace: error while loading shared libraries: libclangFrontend.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[root@localhost ~]# /usr/share/bcc/tools/opensnoop Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/share/bcc/tools/opensnoop”, line 19, in
from bcc import ArgString, BPF
File “/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/bcc/__init__.py”, line 27, in
from .libbcc import lib, bcc_symbol, bcc_symbol_option, _SYM_CB_TYPE
File “/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/bcc/libbcc.py”, line 17, in
lib = ct.CDLL(“libbcc.so.0”, use_errno=True)
File “/usr/lib64/python3.6/ctypes/__init__.py”, line 343, in __init__
self._handle = _dlopen(self._name, mode)
OSError: libclangFrontend.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Looking through the CentOSBug tracker, I see https://bugs.CentOS.org/view.php?id922: qt5-doctools-5.11.1-9.el8 from CentOS CR/8-stream is misbuilt https://bugs.CentOS.org/view.php?id930: rust-1.37.0-1.module_el8.1.0+246+1f1fd47e built against old libLLVM-7.so

So, I gather that bcc-tools and bpftrace are not the only packages affected by an LLVM mismatch.

Short of downloading and rebuilding the packages, does anyone have any suggestions about workarounds?

Regards,
-EricZ

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  • As a follow-up, this issue turned out to be a PEBKAC issue. The system in question had a custom build of bcc on it as well as the dnf installed rpm.

    everything working now once this cleared up.
    -Eric