Debugging of Tuxedo Service in C/C++

Question

Hi All,
I am trying to debug tuxedo service (C code on HP-UNIX 11.00) in the following ways :
shprod25 48: gdb csbfp001 -> csbfp001 is the application service exe
(gdb) b GetRecircRow -> GetRecircRow is the function name
(gdb) r
Starting program: /appl/bstar/bin/csbfp001
Error while reading dynamic library list.
(gdb)
Looks like it is not able to read DLL and it exists. Can anyone please tell me how can i debug the code line by line ?

Answer 1

It's even more complex than this, because Tuxedo Services has to attach IPCS and register in the BBL/DBBL in order to communicate with the world. The problem you are facing is because you are trying to boot the server without all the variables that tuxedo programs (like tmboot) uses when starting all the stuff.
So, I will recommend you two different aproaches:
1) Start tuxedo server as usual (with tmboot a/o tmadmin) and attach gdb to the pid when it has started, debugging from then on. It is the easiest and safest way.
2) If you need to debug from the start (which is a little more complex), load the environment that starts initially the domain (BBL/DBBL), start tuxedo server as usual, take note with a "ps" of all the parameters tuxedo uses when starting this server, shutdown it and start debugging with gdb using this parameters to run the server.
Hope this helps.
Ramon