Sean McNamara <smcnam at gmail.com> writes: > On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 12:25 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > 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 > [...] > 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 ;) I'd settle for a bug report in your words to the pulseaudio bug tracker, summarising the problem and a suggested improvement, to ensure this doesn't get lost. -- \ ?Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the | `\ unanimity of the graveyard.? ?Justice Roberts in 319 U.S. | _o__) 624 (1943) | Ben Finney