[Ace-users] [tao-users] ORB Debug information

[Douglas C. Schmidt]

Hi Jochen,

>now I've had again time for the analysis of it.

Great!

>In the truss output I saw that in the process that traces the ORB debug
>info the following appeared:
>
>*OK*
>...
>TAO (2159|1) Default ORB - global initialization completed.
>...
>TAO (2159|1) Initializing the orb-specific services
>...
> 0.0001	write(2, " T A O   ( 2 1 5 9 | 1 )".., 34)	= 34
> 0.0001	lwp_sigmask(SIG_SETMASK, 0x00000000, 0x00000000) = 0xFFBFFEFF
>[0x0000FFFF]
> 0.0001	open("/export/local/rctraces/SYS_NameServer.orbout",
>O_WRONLY|O_APPEND|O_CREAT, 0666) = 9
>...
>
>
>In the process which doesn't trace anything but creates the file (lenght
>zero) I saw only this
>
>*NOT OK*
>...
>0.0001	lseek(7, 0, SEEK_END)				= 873807
> 0.0000	write(7, " 2 0 0 8 - 0 1 - 1 5 . 1".., 100)	= 100
> 0.0001	lwp_sema_post(0xF9F80000)			= 0
> 0.0000	lwp_sigmask(SIG_SETMASK, 0x00000000, 0x00000000) = 0xFFBFFEFF
>[0x0000FFFF]
> 0.0001	brk(0x00337EF8)					= 0
> 0.0001	brk(0x00339EF8)					= 0
> 0.0002	brk(0x00339EF8)					= 0
> 0.0000	brk(0x0033BEF8)					= 0
> 0.0005	open("/export/local/rctraces/testservername.orbout",
>O_WRONLY|O_APPEND|O_CREAT, 0666) = 11
> 0.0001	brk(0x0033BEF8)					= 0
>...
>
>and there is nothing in the whole output about the initialization of the
>orb. But for sure I do the orb init in my application code ... Do you
>have any hint what may be wrong here?

There's no way we can figure out what's happening without a simple
test case.  I suggest you run this stuff in a debugger and figure out
what's going on.

Thanks,

        Doug
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