Comment 4 for bug 1675949

I'm going to need more information. Can you give me the output of these commands?

$ uname -a
$ dpkg -S $(which perf)
$ dpkg --get-selections | grep linux-tools

Can you proived the exact commands you're running to produce this behavior? For me, running "perf record" with no additional arguments only generates help text.

Is this only with one specific way of invoking "perf record"? Have you tried sampling other events to see if you get the same problem? For example, does this produce a similar error?

# perf record -F 99 -g -- sleep 10