Sean McNamara <smcnam at gmail.com> writes: > 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. I have upgraded to (Debian's package of) pulseaudio 0.9.15 and had some trouble that needed diagnosis of failure again; this behaviour would have been helpful. > 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 ;) Consider this a prod :-) If you know how to describe this in the BTS, I'd appreciate a link to the resulting report. -- \ ?Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, | `\ unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any subject | _o__) unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat.? ?Peter Sellers | Ben Finney