Advisor 2021.2 Linux assertion fail 'Metrics Discovery library not found'

[Winfried]

Hi,

I am working on an Intel i5-8250U laptop with OpenSuse linux 15.2 (which is very similar to Suse SLES 15 SP2).

In installed OneAPI basekit and hpckit according to the installation instructions:

sudo zypper addrepo https://yum.repos.intel.com/oneapi oneAPI
sudo zupper install intel-basekit intel-hpcki

VTune and Inspector work fine.
When I open Advisor with:

/opt/intel/oneapi/advisor/2021.2.0/bin64/advisor-gui

 the Advisor GUI appears. Everytime I select my project and click on the "Run analysis" button an "Intel advisor caused an assertion failure" dialog appears with the following text:

[Assertion]
CrashedPID: 27453
CrashedTID: 27458
Expression: m_library
File: sdks/release_posix-x86_64/perfrun_1.26.48/include/perfrun1/pluginsdk/metrics_discovery_lib.hpp
Line: 837
Product: Intel(R) Advisor 2021.2; 609067
ReportPath: /tmp/advixe-log-wdobbe/2021-04-22-17-29-41-984120.advixe-runss/

[PremortalLog]
72 [140021813036800] WARN collectunits.pci_devices <> - Couldn't fill nodes from distance info, using old-good engine info, at file: vcs/collectunits1/pci_devices/src/linux/get_gpu_adapters.cpp:156
74 [140021813036800] WARN perfrun.sdk <> - Cannot find CloseMetricsDevice symbol
74 [140021813036800] WARN perfrun.sdk <> - Metrics Discovery library was not found, lib name: 'libmd.so.1', lib path: '', at file: sdks/release_posix-x86_64/perfrun_1.26.48/include/perfrun1/pluginsdk/metrics_discovery_lib.hpp:824
74 [140021813036800] ERROR qfagent.assert <> - ASSERT FAILED: 'm_library', at file: sdks/release_posix-x86_64/perfrun_1.26.48/include/perfrun1/pluginsdk/metrics_discovery_lib.hpp:837

[Context.0x00006b42]
EAX: 0x00007f595e6d10f0
EBP: 0x00007f595e6d1590
EBX: 0x0000000000000345
ECX: 0x0000000000000000
EDI: 0x00007f595e6d1028
EDX: 0x0000000000000000
EIP: 0x00007f59603dc165
ESI: 0x00007f595800d3a0
ESP: 0x00007f595e6d0df0
R10: 0x000000000000001e
R11: 0x0000000000000000
R12: 0x00007f595800b8b8
R13: 0x00007f595800b8b8
R14: 0x0000000000000088
R15: 0x0000000000000000
R8: 0x0000000000000000
R9: 0x00007f59653861e0

The assertion dialog then tries to collect data to send an error report to Intel, but the collection process gets stuck when the progress bar is at appr. 25%. When I close the assertion dialog the GUI is still visible, but when I try to start the analysis nothing seems to happen.

Searching for library libmd.so.1 gives no result:

linux-wdobbe:/opt/intel/oneapi # find . -name libmd.so*
./vtune/2021.3.0/system_analyzer/target/libmd.so
linux-wdobbe:/opt/intel/oneapi #

Full system information:
Intel Advisor 2021.2 build number 609067
OpenSuse Linux 15.2
HP ProBook 450 G5, Intel Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8250U CPU, 16 GB RAM
GCC 7.2 and 9.3

Thanks in advance for any advice how to resolve this,
regards Winfried

[Gopika_Intel]

Hi,

Thank you for reaching out and providing all the information. We are checking it internally. We will get back to you.

Regards

Gopika

[AthiraM_Intel]

Hi,

The issue is resolved with the latest release.

Advisor 2021.4 is available for download as a standalone tool at https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/tool/oneapi-standalone-components.html#ad... or as part of oneAPI Base Toolkit 2021.4 at https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/oneapi/base-toolkit-download.html

Could you please try with the latest release and let us know whether your issue is resolved?

Thanks.

[Winfried]

Hi,

Thanks for the update.

The issue is indeed resolved in version 2021.4.

However when I open advisor, even when it still displays the welcome screen, it runs one cpu core of my laptop immediately at 100 %, see top output below.
Is this expected ?

top - 19:50:40 up 17 min,  4 users,  load average: 1,31, 1,52, 1,18
Tasks: 309 total,   2 running, 306 sleeping,   0 stopped,   1 zombie
%Cpu(s):  7,1 us,  5,9 sy,  0,0 ni, 86,0 id,  0,1 wa,  0,0 hi,  0,8 si,  0,0 st
MiB Mem : 15866,42+total, 7674,945 free, 3330,820 used, 4860,660 buff/cache
MiB Swap: 2559,996 total, 2559,996 free,    0,000 used. 11624,77+avail Mem  

 PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU  %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND
24877 wdobbe    20   0 3147016 317152 260860 R 100,3 1,952   5:16.57 advisor-gui
3299 wdobbe    20   0 4157600 501852 247208 S 2,333 3,089   1:26.20 firefox
3803 wdobbe    20   0 3173300 331012 144700 S 2,000 2,037   0:44.94 Web Content

[AthiraM_Intel]

Hi,

We are working on this internally. We will let you know the updates soon.

Thanks.