Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Sun, 13.04.08 13:07, Sean McNamara (smcnam at gmail.com) wrote: > > >> Hi, comments inline :) >> >> On Sun, 2008-04-13 at 18:34 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: >> >> >>> Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk at iki.fi> writes: >>> >>> >>>> I believe /var/log/syslog has more error messages. >>>> >>> You're right, thank you. >>> >> When you start PA with --daemonize=true (the default >> in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf), it outputs to /var/log/syslog. If you want >> to see what's going on for a single console invocation of PA, you can >> try >> pulseaudio -vvvv --daemonize=false >> It will then output all the debugging info to the console. The first v >> is for errors; the second, warnings; the third, notices; the fourth, >> debugging. Sometimes two v's isn't enough to get the full picture. >> > > Unless someone played around with daemon.conf -vv is all you need, > it doesn't get any better by passing more v's. "notice" is the > default, and adding one -v will increase the verbosity level by one > step. Hence -v will get it upped to "info" and -vv to "debug". And > ther's nothing btter than debug. > > Lennart > > Not to split hairs or anything, but, if someone were to do the following in daemon.conf: log-level = error would that mean that passing -vvvv in the command line would bump it from error -> warning -> notice -> info -> debug? Notice, four arrows, four v's. From the pulse-daemon.conf manpage: "log-level= Log level, one of debug, info, notice, warning, error. Log messages with a lower log level than specified here are not logged. Defaults to notice. The --log-level command line option takes precedence. The -v command line option might alter this setting." I have set the log-level to error before, in other daemon programs, on a system with very constrained disk space, where /var was mounted on NAND. So I can imagine a marginal use case for this. So, not to justify my point or anything, but -vvvv is the safest option to have someone try if you don't know their daemon.conf settings :) Otherwise, -vv with log-level = error would just go error -> warning -> notice, and not give us any infos or debugs. Even -vv with log-level = warning would only give us up to infos. Of course, in this situation it seems the OP didn't modify the default conf files *at all* until we started to help him out, so -vv might've been a safe assumption. Splitting even more hairs ;-) Thanks for weighing in on this Lennart. -Sean
