cheese failing silently

[James Finstrom]

I have nothing good to contribute here but if I hadn't used cheese and
knew what it was I would think the thread subject was strange. Even
now I chuckle every time I see it

On 7/15/09, Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Ted Gould <ted at gould.cx> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 09:44 -0700, Dazed_75 wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 1:28 AM, Ted Gould <ted at gould.cx> wrote:
>> >         On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 19:04 -0700, Dazed_75 wrote:
>> >         > Jul  8 17:42:03 damselfish dbus-daemon: Rejected send
>> >         message, 1
>> >         > matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.34" (uid=1000
>> >         pid=3831
>> >         > comm="/usr/lib/indicator-applet/indicator-applet --oaf-a")
>> >         > interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="Get"
>> >         error
>> >         > name="(unset)" requested_reply=0
>> >         destination=":1.57" (uid=1000
>> >         > pid=6093 comm="cheese "))
>> >
>> >
>> >         That's my fault :)
>> >
>> >         It shouldn't relate to Cheese in anyway.  If you'd like to
>> >         respond to
>> >         the bug, it's more about spamming auth.log with useless
>> >         information.
>> >
>> >           https://bugs.launchpad.net/indicator-applet/+bug/346513
>> >
>> >         Sorry about that.
>> >
>> >                        --Ted
>> > Are you saying that my cheese filing to stay running is because of the
>> > fix you committed for this bug?
>>
>> No, I'm saying that the reason that you see that message in your
>> auth.log is because of something I wrote.  It would be entirely
>> unrelated to your Cheese not running.
>>
>>                --Ted
>>
>> Thanks for the info Ted!  Sorry I misunderstod.
>
> So, back to the drawing board.  Lordy I do hate silent failures.
> Unfortunately, it is all too common to not convey any useful information to
> the poor user!
>
> --
> Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry
>
> The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions,
> that I wish it always to be kept alive.
>  - Thomas Jefferson
>


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