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2007-01-31 Havoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com>

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* bus/dbus-daemon.1.in: write a section in the man page on running
	a test daemon for debugging purposes
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2007-01-31 Havoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com>
* bus/dbus-daemon.1.in: write a section in the man page on running
a test daemon for debugging purposes
2007-01-26 Havoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com>
* bus/session.conf.in: override all the default limits with much

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@ -597,6 +597,59 @@ If a name has no security context associated in the
configuration file, the security context of the bus daemon
itself will be used.
.SH DEBUGGING
.PP
If you're trying to figure out where your messages are going or why
you aren't getting messages, there are several things you can try.
.PP
Remember that the system bus is heavily locked down and if you
haven't installed a security policy file to allow your message
through, it won't work. For the session bus, this is not a concern.
.PP
The simplest way to figure out what's happening on the bus is to run
the \fIdbus-monitor\fP program, which comes with the D-Bus
package. You can also send test messages with \fIdbus-send\fP. These
programs have their own man pages.
.PP
If you want to know what the daemon itself is doing, you might consider
running a separate copy of the daemon to test against. This will allow you
to put the daemon under a debugger, or run it with verbose output, without
messing up your real session and system daemons.
.PP
To run a separate test copy of the daemon, for example you might open a terminal
and type:
.nf
DBUS_VERBOSE=1 dbus-daemon --session --print-address
.fi
.PP
The test daemon address will be printed when the daemon starts. You will need
to copy-and-paste this address and use it as the value of the
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS environment variable when you launch the applications
you want to test. This will cause those applications to connect to your
test bus instead of the DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS of your real session bus.
.PP
DBUS_VERBOSE=1 will have NO EFFECT unless your copy of D-Bus
was compiled with verbose mode enabled. This is not recommended in
production builds due to performance impact. You may need to rebuild
D-Bus if your copy was not built with debugging in mind. (DBUS_VERBOSE
also affects the D-Bus library and thus applications using D-Bus; it may
be useful to see verbose output on both the client side and from the daemon.)
.PP
If you want to get fancy, you can create a custom bus
configuration for your test bus (see the session.conf and system.conf
files that define the two default configurations for example). This
would allow you to specify a different directory for .service files,
for example.
.SH AUTHOR
See http://www.freedesktop.org/software/dbus/doc/AUTHORS