Searchable mailing list archive + question

[Tako Schotanus]

Tako Schotanus wrote:

> Havoc Pennington wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 11:34, Tako Schotanus wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Does a searchable version of the mailing list archive exist? I'm 
>>> trying to find out if a problem I'm having has already been 
>>> solved/encountered by someone else but had no idea where to start 
>>> looking.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Go to google and do "site:mail.gnome.org foo bar" ;-)
>>  
>>
> gnome.org?? Who would have figured that? Sorry but that's far from 
> obvious for me ;-)
>
>>  
>>
>>> Anyway, now that I got your attention anyway I'm going to ask my 
>>> question:
>>>
>>> does anyone know what I'm doing wrong if dbus_bus_acquire_service() 
>>> returns "Disconnected prior to receiving a reply"?
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Means the bus is dropping your connection for some reason, you'd have to
>> diagnose that by tracing what the bus daemon is doing e.g. with verbose
>> output.
>>  
>>
> Ok, that did the trick and it was just a very stupid mistake (wrong 
> method/signal name).
>
> But I did notice a couple of things along the way that might be worth 
> mentioning:
>
> a) verbose output - is it explained anywhere what you have to do to 
> get verbose output? I had to look into the code to find that I had to 
> set DBUS_VERBOSE besides the configure option. (NB: would patches 
> adding a --verbose option to the tools be accepted?)

Ok, found it.
My newbie status shows here, I never thought to look in HACKING for this 
information, sorry.

Cheers,
-Tako