[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#545448: Bug#545448: invoke-rc.d should indicate whats wrong when not starting services

[Patrick Schoenfeld]

On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 01:44:03PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > Yeah, I know that. And that is okay. However if it does not start a
> > service (for whatever reason) it should say WHY. It does so for
> 
> Well, I am not oposed to that at all, it would be useful to add a "verbose"
> or even better, a very verbose "debug" mode to invoke-rc.d.

I'm not sure this is required. Actually invoke-rc.d has a --quiet switch
which is described as "Quiet mode, no error messages are generated.".
Actually this could get enhanced as "no error/warning" messages are
generated and printing warning on such problems would become the
default. After all I think that is wanted.

But an additional --debug option would probably not bad either.

> > Well, because I need to test somehow why it isn't starting a service from a
> > maintainer script. As already said: An invoke-rc.d that basically does
> 
> I am also not opposed to adding just the message you wanted as a quick fix
> for the lack of a debug mode.  Care to send a patch to this bug report?

Actually, no. When I had a quick look at the script I haven't found the
place where it failed. I really don't want to spend more time in
debugging a shell script then neccessary. Sorry.

Thanks anyway,
Best Regards
Patrick