riff needs better error messages
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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IglooCommunity |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
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Kalle Vahlman |
Bug Description
Much guesswork is involved when trying to figure out the problem when riff reports an error.
As an example, in bug 984647:
15:09:12 - Listening on USB for device connection...
15:09:12 - Connected Device@0
15:09:14 - LCD ERROR: Error while initializing device -1
15:09:14 - COMMAND ERROR: Command execution failed -1
15:09:14 - Disconnected Device@0
15:09:14 - LCD ERROR: Failed to destroy LCD context 10056
The -1 in "LCD ERROR: Error while initializing device -1" comes from InitializeDut:
When supporting users with problems, I want to see what exactly failed and not get the same return value for many different problems.
And for reducing the number of users that need help, riff should print useful error messages that tell what exactly failed (e.g. "Sending TOC+ISSW to device failed").
Note that InitializeDut:
Changed in igloocommunity: | |
importance: | Medium → Wishlist |
Changed in igloocommunity: | |
milestone: | none → 2012.05 |
Changed in igloocommunity: | |
assignee: | nobody → Ola Borgelin (olab) |
Changed in igloocommunity: | |
milestone: | 2012.05 → 2012.06 |
You can use riff in verbose mode. -v option.