Finding the server error file (dsmserv.err)
When the server stops, it appends information to the dsmserv.err file which is located in the same directory as the server.
Before you begin
The trap handler is disabled to prevent
the function traceback from printing on the console and in the dsmserv.err file.
This change is required in order to ensure that we will get a more
complete core file. As part of disabling the trap handler, a new script, getcoreinfo,
is in the Linux® packages.
The getcoreinfo script gets the function traceback
for the failing thread and registers values and function traceback
for all other threads. The amount of information available in the
core for other threads is still incomplete on some Linux platforms/distributions. See the getcoreinfo script
(in the server bin directory) for more details.
If
the server is running as a service, the file is named dsmsvc.err.
About this task
Procedure
- Make sure that the GNU debugger (gdb) is installed on the customer system.
- Copy the gt shell script to the server bin directory (where the server executable [.exe] file and core file are located).
- Make sure the script is an executable file (chmod a+x gt).
- Invoke the script with the paths/names of the executable
file (default is ./dsmserv) and the core (default
is ./dsmcore). The output is in the dsm_gdb.info file (which should be sent to IBM).