On Tuesday 29 March 2005 12:36, Holly Bostick wrote:
> I feel that there's some fundamental issue at work when I see so many
> posts (not only here, on all kinds of Linux lists/forums), where the
> answer, or a major clue to the answer, is in the original error
> message, yet users are completely overlooking those messages. I can't
> really believe that the errors are obtuse (or at least I can't
> imagine how they could be made clearer), so is this an educational
> issue? And is there any way to help users see that they more than
> likely already have the capacity to solve their own problems,
> whatever their level of "technical knowledge", often much faster than
> waiting for someone to reply on a forum or (other, slower) list?
Usually two heads are better than one, when you feel clueless you call
for help; someone call sooner than other... Have you ever been asked to
fix a pc that was just unplugged? :-)
A nice (and original too!) idea would be:
write a script
#!/bin/bash
pstree -hal > /tmp/whocalledme.txt
call it "B", make it executable, run again in error condition and then
go to analize /tmp/whocalledme.txt
Ciao
Francesco
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