phacility/phabricator · error · PhutilArgumentUsageException

You must specify which daemon to debug.

Error message

You must specify which daemon to debug.

What it means

Error "You must specify which daemon to debug." thrown in phacility/phabricator.

Source

Thrown at src/applications/daemon/management/PhabricatorDaemonManagementDebugWorkflow.php:45

            'help' => pht('Maximum pool size.'),
            'default' => 1,
          ),
          array(
            'name' => 'as-current-user',
            'help' => pht(
              'Run the daemon as the current user '.
              'instead of the configured %s',
              'phd.user'),
          ),
        ));
  }

  public function execute(PhutilArgumentParser $args) {
    $argv = $args->getArg('argv');
    $run_as_current_user = $args->getArg('as-current-user');

    if (!$argv) {
      throw new PhutilArgumentUsageException(
        pht('You must specify which daemon to debug.'));
    }

    $config = array(
      'class' => array_shift($argv),
      'label' => 'debug',
      'pool' => (int)$args->getArg('pool'),
      'argv' => $argv,
    );

    return $this->launchDaemons(
      array(
        $config,
      ),
      $is_debug = true,
      $run_as_current_user);
  }

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When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at src/applications/daemon/management/PhabricatorDaemonManagementDebugWorkflow.php:45 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

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