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Subject: [bug#40668] [PATCH] installer: Fix backtrace display.
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From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
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To: Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com>
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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 swall=
owing
> of all installation errors.
>
> Fixes 5c04b00cf463a543b8ffc9eb55991f6b4cc145dd.
>
> * gnu/installer.scm (installer-program): Do not try to resolve 'syslog' m=
acro
> in the pre-unwind-handler.

[...]

> Since the commit 5c04b00c, error reporting in the installer is broken. Sa=
dly
> this means that every error happening in the 1.1.0 release will result in=
 an
> installer restart, without any error information reporting.=20

Oh, that=E2=80=99s 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.
=E2=80=98@@=E2=80=99 should only be used in extreme situations.

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.