2006-07-16 Havoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com>

	* dbus/dbus-pending-call.c (_dbus_pending_call_set_timeout_error):
	Improve the error message on reply timeout

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index ad92c2f..869daa2 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2006-07-16  Havoc Pennington  <hp@redhat.com>
+
+       * dbus/dbus-pending-call.c (_dbus_pending_call_set_timeout_error):
+       Improve the error message on reply timeout
+
 2006-07-14  John (J5) Palmieri  <johnp@redhat.com>
 
        * Remove all bindings

diff --git a/dbus/dbus-pending-call.c b/dbus/dbus-pending-call.c
index e3bfbb4..ba5f875 100644 (file)
--- a/dbus/dbus-pending-call.c
+++ b/dbus/dbus-pending-call.c
@@ -304,7 +304,11 @@ _dbus_pending_call_set_timeout_error (DBusPendingCall *pending,
   DBusMessage *reply;
 
   reply = dbus_message_new_error (message, DBUS_ERROR_NO_REPLY,
-                                  "No reply within specified time");
+                                  "Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: "
+                                  "the remote application did not send a reply, "
+                                  "the message bus security policy blocked the reply, "
+                                  "the reply timeout expired, or "
+                                  "the network connection was broken.");
   if (reply == NULL)
     return FALSE;