From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com>
Cc: 40668@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#40668] [PATCH] installer: Fix backtrace display.
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 23:07:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87imhxakjq.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200416173354.11807-1-m.othacehe@gmail.com> (Mathieu Othacehe's message of "Thu, 16 Apr 2020 19:33:54 +0200")
Hello,
Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com> skribis:
> The 'syslog' macro cannot be resolved in the pre-unwind-handler
> context. Failed to resolve 'syslog' in this context resulted in the swallowing
> of all installation errors.
>
> Fixes 5c04b00cf463a543b8ffc9eb55991f6b4cc145dd.
>
> * gnu/installer.scm (installer-program): Do not try to resolve 'syslog' macro
> in the pre-unwind-handler.
[...]
> Since the commit 5c04b00c, error reporting in the installer is broken. Sadly
> this means that every error happening in the 1.1.0 release will result in an
> installer restart, without any error information reporting.
Oh, that’s terrible. :-/ Sorry about that.
> - (syslog "crashing due to uncaught exception: ~s ~s~%"
> - key args)
> + ((@@ (gnu installer utils) syslog)
> + "crashing due to uncaught exception: ~s ~s~%"
> + key args)
Please add (gnu installer utils) to the list of use-modules.
‘@@’ should only be used in extreme situations.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
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2020-04-16 17:33 [bug#40668] [PATCH] installer: Fix backtrace display Mathieu Othacehe
2020-04-17 21:07 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2020-04-18 15:46 ` bug#40668: " Mathieu Othacehe
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