I am also having this problem, while trying to profile UBUNTU'S manual example. 

Example found here : http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/yakkety/man1/sprof.1.html#contenttoc7

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execve("/usr/bin/sprof", ["sprof", "-p", "libdemo.so.1"], [/* 74 vars */]) = 0
brk(NULL)                               = 0x934000
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
mmap(NULL, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f0a39cd2000
access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=104012, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 104012, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x7f0a39cb8000
close(3)                                = 0
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\2\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0>\0\1\0\0\0\240\r\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 832) = 832
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=14608, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 2109680, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x7f0a398ab000
mprotect(0x7f0a398ae000, 2093056, PROT_NONE) = 0
mmap(0x7f0a39aad000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x2000) = 0x7f0a39aad000
close(3)                                = 0
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\2\1\1\3\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0>\0\1\0\0\0P\t\2\0\0\0\0\0"..., 832) = 832
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1868984, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 3971488, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x7f0a394e1000
mprotect(0x7f0a396a1000, 2097152, PROT_NONE) = 0
mmap(0x7f0a398a1000, 24576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x1c0000) = 0x7f0a398a1000
mmap(0x7f0a398a7000, 14752, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f0a398a7000
close(3)                                = 0
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f0a39cb7000
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f0a39cb6000
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f0a39cb5000
arch_prctl(ARCH_SET_FS, 0x7f0a39cb6700) = 0
mprotect(0x7f0a398a1000, 16384, PROT_READ) = 0
mprotect(0x7f0a39aad000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0
mprotect(0x604000, 4096, PROT_READ)     = 0
mprotect(0x7f0a39cd4000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0
munmap(0x7f0a39cb8000, 104012)          = 0
brk(NULL)                               = 0x934000
brk(0x955000)                           = 0x955000
open("/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=10219008, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 10219008, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x7f0a38b22000
close(3)                                = 0
open("./libdemo.so.1", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\2\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0>\0\1\0\0\0`\6\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 832) = 832
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0775, st_size=9496, ...}) = 0
getcwd("/home/keks/work/test", 128)     = 21
mmap(NULL, 2101312, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x7f0a38920000
mprotect(0x7f0a38921000, 2093056, PROT_NONE) = 0
mmap(0x7f0a38b20000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x7f0a38b20000
close(3)                                = 0
writev(2, [{"Inconsistency detected by ld.so:"..., 33}, {"dl-open.c", 9}, {": ", 2}, {"717", 3}, {": ", 2}, {"_dl_open", 8}, {": ", 2}, {"Assertion `", 11}, {"_dl_debug_initialize (0, args.ns"..., 61}, {"' failed!\n", 10}], 10Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-open.c: 717: _dl_open: Assertion `_dl_debug_initialize (0, args.nsid)->r_state == RT_CONSISTENT' failed!
) = 141
exit_group(127)                         = ?
+++ exited with 127 +++