Segfaulting VIM. What?

I got quite the surprise today while opening a file for editing using vim. fx@teikapi2:~ sudo vim /etc/hosts Segmentation fault Say what? Vim, segfaulting? Okay. There was an automatic apt-get upgrade on this machine today, so that is the explanation. Still quite weird and most definitely not expected. Quick backtrace under gdb showed: #0 _dl_lookup_symbol_x…

Systemtap on Debian Jessie

So I wanted to play a bit with Systemtap on Debian Jessie. I installed it: sudo apt-get install systemtap Afterwards I wanted to run a quick one-liner: fx@cloudhawk:~$ stap -L ‘nd_syscall.*’ Checking “/lib/modules/3.16.0-4-amd64/build/.config” failed with error: No such file or directory Tip: /usr/share/doc/systemtap/README.Debian should help you get started. It failed, but hey, at least it…