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Tools for debugging

Bugs can happen. Cozy-desktop has some tools to track them.

Debug logs

The first and most important one is logging. If you think you might have found a bug, the first thing to do is running cozy-desktop with debug:

DEBUG=true yarn start

To both keep logs on a file and display them on screen, you can use tee:

DEBUG=true yarn start 2>&1 | tee $(date '+%Y-%m-%d.log')

It’s possible to have even more logs if you want, by enabling pouchdb debug logs and request debug logs:

NODE_DEBUG=request DEBUG=pouchdb:* yarn start

When cozy-desktop is running, it’s possible to send it the USR1 signal to make it list the paths watched by chokidar:

kill -USR1 <pid>