* Brosseau, Yannick (yannick.bross...@gmail.com) wrote: > Would it be possible to improve the error message to tell the user that it > needs to connect to a root session? > > I got the same feedback from another user today, so this seem really > confusing.
Fixed by: commit 531d29f9e514ad5a4880600d5c7e373f2f254ead Author: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoy...@efficios.com> Date: Fri Mar 2 18:17:33 2012 -0500 Fix: meaningful error message Show a meaningful error message to users attempting to do kernel tracing without root sessiond/tracing group creds. Reported-by: "Brosseau, Yannick" <yannick.bross...@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoy...@efficios.com> e.g.: compudj@thinkos:~$ lttng enable-event -k -a Error: A root sessiond needs to be running, and user part of the "tracing" group, to activate kernel tracing -- Mathieu Desnoyers Operating System Efficiency R&D Consultant EfficiOS Inc. http://www.efficios.com _______________________________________________ lttng-dev mailing list lttng-dev@lists.lttng.org http://lists.lttng.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lttng-dev