From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Fri Apr 17 17:07:14 2020 Received: (at 40668) by debbugs.gnu.org; 17 Apr 2020 21:07:14 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41783 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jPYCg-0000Mr-IW for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 17 Apr 2020 17:07:14 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:43874) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jPYCf-0000Mf-8l for 40668@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 17 Apr 2020 17:07:13 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:45795) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jPYCa-000873-6f; Fri, 17 Apr 2020 17:07:08 -0400 Received: from [2a01:e0a:1d:7270:af76:b9b:ca24:c465] (port=53544 helo=ribbon) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jPYCZ-00037G-EV; Fri, 17 Apr 2020 17:07:07 -0400 From: =?utf-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= To: Mathieu Othacehe Subject: Re: [bug#40668] [PATCH] installer: Fix backtrace display. References: <20200416173354.11807-1-m.othacehe@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 23:07:05 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20200416173354.11807-1-m.othacehe@gmail.com> (Mathieu Othacehe's message of "Thu, 16 Apr 2020 19:33:54 +0200") Message-ID: <87imhxakjq.fsf@gnu.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Spam-Score: -1.5 (-) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 40668 Cc: 40668@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -2.5 (--) Hello, Mathieu Othacehe 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.