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AppIndicator for KDE Connect
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how to debug / find logs #117

Closed thiswillbeyourgithub closed 6 years ago

thiswillbeyourgithub commented 6 years ago

Hi,

I have been using kdeconnect on ubuntu for a while now and I seem to have run into some issues that make it unusable.

Normally I might be able to figure it out on my own without having to ask here but I can't seem to find the logs nor to find a "debug" argument when running it.

Am I missing something ?

edit : it seems to have stopped working at the same time as my syncthing setup, and their github talks about regression in a recent python package or something... so your logs would really help me

andyholmes commented 6 years ago

Without building a full debug build of KDE Connect, there isn't really a debug mode. Any errors should be logged in journalctl/syslog or as stated on the KDE Connect wiki you can run:

killall -9 kdeconnectd; /usr/lib/libexec/kdeconnectd -platform offscreen

to force it to run in a terminal. Otherwise, you may want to ask on the mailinglist, where they will no doubt be aware of any problems with dependencies. As far as I know indicator-kdeconnect itself has no logs since it's just a DBus client for KDE Connect, but if that's where you think the problem is you could also try running:

killall -9 indicator-kdeconnect; indicator-kdeconnect

And see if any errors are printed the terminal.

thiswillbeyourgithub commented 6 years ago

Hmm. That might explain why in the morning I had a 5GB syslog file... Unfortunately I was dumb enough to remove it without looking inside so I can't be sure.

When trying killall -9 kdeconnectd; /usr/lib//kdeconnect-cli -platform offscreen it returns kdeconnectd: no process found because the only package I have seem to be kdeconnect-cli and kdeconnect-send.

Did I install it wrong ? I recall installing it via a simple apt-get.

andyholmes commented 6 years ago

kdeconnectd isn't in PATH, if i recall correctly (I don't actually have it installed). If you run locate kdeconnectd that should tell you where it is, and you should be able to run it directly from that path using the above command.

kdeconnect-cli on the other hand is just a simple program for sending one-off commands to the server, mostly for scripting purposes.

thiswillbeyourgithub commented 6 years ago

Oh indeed, mine was in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexec/kdeconnectd.

Apparently I just fixed my problem, it was a firewall misconfiguration on my end. Sorry for taking your time :/ But logs and debugging would be great :) !