problems understanding the output of dbus-monitor (security policy)

[Havoc Pennington]

On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 16:28 +0100, Ikke wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > My guess is that you and Ikke are seeing the same thing, which is that a
> > message with no reply expected (perhaps a signal) is somehow triggering
> > an UnknownMethod error. Because no reply is expected, the error is not
> > allowed to go back through the bus.
> Why am I not able to see the emitted signal on the bus then?
> 

Try printing the error string from the UnknownMethod, it will say which
method it's complaining about. You may have to modify dbus to output the
error string when logging a message it denied, since you never get that
error back. Or turn on <allow send_requested_reply="false"/>

Havoc