From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: Can we increase the print width/column in daemon backtraces Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 14:47:57 +0200 Message-ID: <87k1cjihvm.fsf@elephly.net> References: <87tvbn7ff3.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:39435) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hn0Ow-0002wf-Vj for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Jul 2019 08:48:19 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hn0Ov-0000o3-TF for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Jul 2019 08:48:18 -0400 Received: from sender-of-o51.zoho.com ([135.84.80.216]:21210) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hn0Ou-0000mq-Oq for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Jul 2019 08:48:17 -0400 In-reply-to: <87tvbn7ff3.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Pierre Neidhardt Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi Pierre, > Quite often when packaging and iterating, the daemon produces backtraces > on errors, which could be very useful to understand what's wrong, but > unfortunately the output is truncated to some 80-ish column. Set the COLUMNS environment variable to some large value. -- Ricardo