From: Wojtek Kosior via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." <guix-devel@gnu.org>
To: Vladilen Kozin <vladilen.kozin@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: guix system container and friends fail to report intermediate errors
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2023 20:10:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230327201057.76481cff.koszko@koszko.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACw=CXPG53DDq=Ew0apYBCYtunyK=ys8eSf3Wgu6usXmXHsNeg@mail.gmail.com>
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> Hello. Is it possible to get better error reporting in the following
> example?
>
> $ sudo guix system -K -L /home/vlad/Code/fullmeta-guix/channel container
> os.scm
>
> [...]
I also face this very problem when using the "-L" switch with other
commands, e.g. `guix shell`. Is there some missed-by-us way to get
error reports from modules?
Wojtek
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On Mon, 27 Mar 2023 14:52:26 +0100
Vladilen Kozin <vladilen.kozin@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello. Is it possible to get better error reporting in the following
> example?
>
> $ sudo guix system -K -L /home/vlad/Code/fullmeta-guix/channel container
> os.scm
>
> And our os.scm imports some services defined in our channel above. Should
> there be an error in one of them, however, the stack trace only talks about
> inability to find that service symbol but otherwise fails to report any
> errors that may've happened when loading modules from our -L location above.
>
> Case in point. In one of the modules, I habitually used Clojury syntax and
> wrote:
>
> (define foo [1 2])
>
> (define foo-service
> (list
> (shepherd-service ... #$foo ...)))
>
> (define foo-service-type ...)
>
> Running the above OS derivation reports:
> ```
> Backtrace:
> In guix/store.scm:
> ... bt here ...
> ice-9/boot-9.scm:1685:16: In procedure raise-exception:
> error: foo-service-type: unbound variable
> ```
>
> Backtrace has all modules and files either unknown or gensymed - so not
> much use.
> It isn't wrong, but e.g. attempting to [1 2] in Guile repl would tell you
> "Wrong type to apply: 1" and loading this file would give you the location
> ... probably :)
>
> Feels like defining shepherd services involves some dark arts and buckets
> of time when you can't tell what went wrong where.
>
> Thank you
>
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-27 13:52 guix system container and friends fail to report intermediate errors Vladilen Kozin
2023-03-27 18:10 ` Wojtek Kosior via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution. [this message]
2023-04-17 16:07 ` Ludovic Courtès
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