This is a general question because I have run into this with this and other public modules. How the heck do you debug problems with someone else's module. Do you make a copy and start debugging that?

To get specific to the topic of the subject line, I am having a deep gnarly problem with DBI. Can anyone offer any wisdom? Thanks.

The error message, just as a for example: 

DBD::Proxy::st execute failed: Server returned error:
 Failed to execute method CallMethod:
 Can't bind unknown placeholder '2' at
 /u/ucc/staff/dba/lib/perl5/site_perl/DBI/ProxyServer.pm
 line 301.

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DBI version:  DBI::VERSION = "1.12"

...and part of my perl -V output (don't yell at me): 

 Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 4 subversion 4) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=solaris, osvers=2.6, archname=sun4-solaris
    uname='sunos deckard.cc.rochester.edu 5.6 generic_105181-06 sun4u 
+sparc sunw,ultra-5_10 '

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In reply to DBI/module debugging? by kechari

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