Debuging g-s-t

[Ken VanDine]

How can I get useful debugging information?  I am running
system-tools-backends 1.9.3 and gnome-system-tools 2.15.2 on Foresight
Linux.  I have patched it as a supported platform.  The network tool
seems to work fine, however the users-admin tool doesn't work.  I can
add a user and it gets displayed in the interface.  However, the account
isn't actually created.  

How can I get useful debugging information to find out where the problem
is?

Thanks,
--Ken

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[Darren Kenny]

Hi Ken,

If you look in /var/cache/setup-tools-backends/ you should see lots of files
that should help.

Specifically look at the debug/<tool>/1/debug file contents - each time you
execute the *-admin script the backend is run with the --report and --debug
options (hint, you can also do this if you run the backend script from the
command-line yourself). The dir named "1" is rotated, so becomes 2 the next time
you run *-admin, and so on.

Also in this debug directory is a file called in.xml - this is the xml that was
sent to the backend script from the UI - with some minor edits, this file can be
used as input to the *-conf scripts so that you can test things in isolation
from the UI. e.g (in the setup-tools-backends build dir, as root)

        ./users-conf.in --report --debug --set < edited_in.xml

You can quite often get enough information without the --debug option.
The running of the .in file is a special case, since all other backend "modules"
(e.g. file.pl.in) will be loaded from the current directory... Useful for
debug/test cycles without having to install.

HTH,

Darren.

Ken VanDine wrote:

> How can I get useful debugging information?  I am running
> system-tools-backends 1.9.3 and gnome-system-tools 2.15.2 on Foresight
> Linux.  I have patched it as a supported platform.  The network tool
> seems to work fine, however the users-admin tool doesn't work.  I can
> add a user and it gets displayed in the interface.  However, the account
> isn't actually created.  
>
> How can I get useful debugging information to find out where the problem
> is?
>
> Thanks,
> --Ken
>
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[Darren Kenny]

Forgot something else - for the record most of the GST tools don't change the
system until the OK button is pressed - I think network "Activate/Deactivate" is
the only exception. So even if you create a user in the UI, and see it listed,
it doesn't exist on the system until you click on the "OK" button on the main
dialog, which results in the backends "set" directive being called.

Darren.

Ken VanDine wrote:

> How can I get useful debugging information?  I am running
> system-tools-backends 1.9.3 and gnome-system-tools 2.15.2 on Foresight
> Linux.  I have patched it as a supported platform.  The network tool
> seems to work fine, however the users-admin tool doesn't work.  I can
> add a user and it gets displayed in the interface.  However, the account
> isn't actually created.  
>
> How can I get useful debugging information to find out where the problem
> is?
>
> Thanks,
> --Ken
>
> _______________________________________________
> system-tools-list mailing list
> system-tools-list@...
> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/system-tools-list

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[Carlos Garnacho]

Hi!,

On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 01:00 -0400, Ken VanDine wrote:
> How can I get useful debugging information?  I am running
> system-tools-backends 1.9.3 and gnome-system-tools 2.15.2 on Foresight
> Linux.  I have patched it as a supported platform.  The network tool
> seems to work fine, however the users-admin tool doesn't work.  I can
> add a user and it gets displayed in the interface.  However, the account
> isn't actually created.  
>
> How can I get useful debugging information to find out where the problem
> is?

if you run the backend with -n --report, it will run in the foreground
and spew lots of information about what it's doing, that could give you
a clue. Another reason could be that the backends aren't running as
root, but it doesn't seem to be your case :)

        Regards

>
> Thanks,
> --Ken
>
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