what is the proper way to ensure identity service is running?

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/social/social_api.c b/src/social/social_api.c
index e0e6829d5..e590f7856 100644
--- a/src/social/social_api.c
+++ b/src/social/social_api.c
@@ -957,6 +957,8 @@ app_recv_place (void *cls,
     ego = GNUNET_CONTAINER_multihashmap_get (app->egos, &ego_pub_hash);
   if (NULL == ego)
   {
+    GNUNET_log (GNUNET_ERROR_TYPE_ERROR,
+              "Failure to obtain ego. Is identity service running?\n");
     GNUNET_break (0);
     return;
   }