Ticket #154 (assigned enhancement)

Opened 1 year ago

Last modified 7 months ago

The error message is confusing when a client tries to connect to a daemon that isn't running

Reported by: tanuk Assigned to: lennart (accepted)
Priority: normal Milestone:
Component: clients Severity: normal
Keywords: wrong message Cc: tanuk@iki.fi

Description

The (too long) short summary says it all... well, maybe I'll elaborate a bit:

Unable to connect: Connection refused

That looks like a permission/authentication problem. It would be nice if the error would be "Unable to connect: Daemon not running" or something else that tells what the problem likely is.

Change History

02/18/08 19:43:50 changed by felipec

+1

I thought something was wrong with pulseaudio, but not that it wasn't running at all.

05/04/08 19:36:21 changed by beier

  • keywords set to wrong message.

+1 (I also got mislead)

Should it just be the wording that gets changed, or can clients easily tell whether no server answers, or a server refuses, e.g. because of an authentication error?

Note that this error message comes from:

Suggestion for a new message: "Unable to connect to the server" + " "Perhaps it is not running, rejecting the connection or the network connection is blocked."

05/05/08 23:06:13 changed by lennart

  • status changed from new to assigned.
  • type changed from defect to enhancement.