From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: 19779-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19779: dmd: service definition errors cause kernel panic
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 12:02:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lh9mjqa6.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lhkckerl.fsf@netris.org> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Thu, 05 Feb 2015 02:18:22 -0500")
Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:
> When I first wrote 'wicd-service', I mispelled
> 'make-forkexec-constructor'. This caused a kernel panic whenever the
> service was included in my OS config. I don't know whether dmd printed
> a helpful error message, but if so, it was followed immediately by a
> kernel call trace that caused earlier messages to scroll off the screen.
> The result is that it was quite difficult to find the source of the
> error.
>
> In case of such errors, it would be good if dmd would print an error
> message with the most useful information at the bottom (in case it does
> not all fit on the display) and then to avoid exiting so that the
> message could be read and understood.
Commit b9c7ed7 wraps service loading in ‘call-with-error-handling’,
which spawns a REPL when something goes wrong. Better than a kernel
panic!
Ludo’.
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2015-02-05 7:18 bug#19779: dmd: service definition errors cause kernel panic Mark H Weaver
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