From: Tom McDonald <tommcdon@microsoft.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2023 21:25:46 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: Provide better error messages for IPC connect failures (#4406)
X-Git-Tag: accepted/tizen/unified/20241231.014852~40^2~272
X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2917eaab34e3edd7a3dfbfecf7148b06d0ed3a0d;p=platform%2Fcore%2Fdotnet%2Fdiagnostics.git

Provide better error messages for IPC connect failures (#4406)
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diff --git a/src/Microsoft.Diagnostics.NETCore.Client/DiagnosticsIpc/IpcTransport.cs b/src/Microsoft.Diagnostics.NETCore.Client/DiagnosticsIpc/IpcTransport.cs
index 6789b0aed..7d4fb0a90 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.Diagnostics.NETCore.Client/DiagnosticsIpc/IpcTransport.cs
+++ b/src/Microsoft.Diagnostics.NETCore.Client/DiagnosticsIpc/IpcTransport.cs
@@ -329,7 +329,14 @@ namespace Microsoft.Diagnostics.NETCore.Client
 
             if (!TryGetDefaultAddress(pid, out string defaultAddress))
             {
-                throw new ServerNotAvailableException($"Process {pid} not running compatible .NET runtime.");
+                string msg = $"Unable to connect to Process {pid}.";
+                if (!RuntimeInformation.IsOSPlatform(OSPlatform.Windows))
+                {
+                    msg += $" Please verify that {IpcRootPath} is writable by the current user. "
+                        + "If the target process has environment variable TMPDIR set, please set TMPDIR to the same directory. "
+                        + "Please see https://aka.ms/dotnet-diagnostics-port for more information";
+                }
+                throw new ServerNotAvailableException(msg);
             }
 
             return defaultAddress;