upstart

start gives really poor error message when you are not root

Bug #1001874 reported by Ivan Sorokin on 2012-05-20

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #431239: initctl: output better errors than D-Bus (e.g. for permission denied). Edit Remove

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	upstart	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

I've just created my first upstart script. "start" program gives really poor error message when you are not root:

ivan@liberty:/etc/init$ start ivan-cache-create
start: Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.60" (uid=1000 pid=2848 comm="start ivan-cache-create ") interface="com.ubuntu.Upstart0_6.Job" member="Start" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination="com.ubuntu.Upstart" (uid=0 pid=1 comm="/sbin/init")

It took some time to figure out what I was doing wrong. Could upstart give more clear error message? Like apt-get:

E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?