How do y'all test?

[Olivier Andrieu]

 Tako Schotanus [Tue, 18 May 2004]:
 > I attached the trace but what I was wondering is where dbus writes
 > its errors to, because it's obvious that in one of the last lines
 > of the trace "write(2, "Failed to start message bus: Cou"..., 81) =
 > 81" it tries to tell what has gone wrong, but I haven't been able
 > to find a log file or anything like that. Or do I need to
 > re-compile with "verbose mode" for this to work?
 > 
 > hmmm...  wait...
 > 
 > Well at least with strace -f -s 100 I now know what the error is, but I 
 > would still like to know where this output goes to ;-)
 > 
 > BTW: the error was "write(2, "Failed to start message bus: Could not get 
 > UID and GID for username \"messagebus\"\n", 81) = 81", so you were right 
 > Richard!

You can't see anything because dbus-daemon-1 redirects all standard
descriptors to /dev/null. 

To prevent this, you need to comment out the <fork/> line in the
config file or use the DBUS_DEBUG_OUTPUT environment variable to keep
stderr open.

-- 
   Olivier