On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 12:25 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > Thanks for helping me get this far. > > Could I suggest that the 'daemon startup failed' message be changed, > to at least include the proximate *reason* why the startup failed. I like this suggestion. It should be possible (barring any untrapped signals or segfaults) to keep a list of modules which have caused a fatal error, and report them once the default.pa file has completed; something like this: Daemon startup failed. The following modules encountered fatal errors: ====== module-alsa-source module-x11-publish ====== Consider disabling these modules or modifying their parameters. Such a message should be output to both the console and syslog, even if daemonized. This still leaves room for confusion, since module-alsa-source is spawned by module-hal-detect in your case. The next naive reaction to the above messages would be, "but I'm not loading module-alsa-source!" But I agree that better error message reporting would be useful. You could look to me for a patch, but it might take some prodding ;) Best Regards, -Sean
