[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#406923: Bug#406923: dbus: Doesn't display adequare logging information

[Sjoerd Simons]

On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 10:57:41AM +0100, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 12:32:55PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote:
> > Package: dbus
> > Version: 1.0.2-1
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > http://source-dump.blogspot.com/2007/01/dbus-error.html
> > 
> > The above URL has a screen capture of a KDE error message.  It seems that dbusd
> > does not log any information related to this so I can't determine the cause of
> > the problem.
> > 
> > Dbusd needs to log information on why it denies operations.
> 
>   Well the application can tell you which call on which interface failed, which
>   should tell you what's ``wrong'' in the dbus configuration. This isn't a
>   problem of dbus imho.
>   
>   In debian you have to be part of the powersave group to access the dbus
>   interface of powersaved or hal, so your user probably isn't. Would be good if
>   the application you show here would show that as a hint :)
> 
>   
>   But i assume the point of this bug is that dbus-daemon should log this
>   information to syslog or ?

Still trying to figure out what the point of this bugreport was :) Would you
like to see have permissions errors logged to syslog or ? That would probably
cause quite some spam in syslog though as apps are figuring out what they can
and can't do.

  Sjoerd