bug#40668: closed ([PATCH] installer: Fix backtrace display.)

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> [PATCH] installer: Fix backtrace display.
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> Thu, 16 Apr 2020 19:33:54 +0200
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> 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.
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> Fixes 5c04b00cf463a543b8ffc9eb55991f6b4cc145dd.
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> * gnu/installer.scm (installer-program): Do not try to resolve 'syslog' macro
> in the pre-unwind-handler.
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> Hello,
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> 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. 
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> Thanks,
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> Mathieu
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>  gnu/installer.scm | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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> diff --git a/gnu/installer.scm b/gnu/installer.scm
> index 1051ee1e5f..eba8a7d428 100644
> --- a/gnu/installer.scm
> +++ b/gnu/installer.scm
> @@ -436,8 +436,9 @@ selected keymap."
>                       #f)))
>                  (const #f)
>                  (lambda (key . args)
> -                  (syslog "crashing due to uncaught exception: ~s ~s~%"
> -                          key args)
> +                  ((@@ (gnu installer utils) syslog)
> +                   "crashing due to uncaught exception: ~s ~s~%"
> +                   key args)
>                    (let ((error-file "/tmp/last-installer-error"))
>                      (call-with-output-file error-file
>                        (lambda (port)
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> Re: [bug#40668] [PATCH] installer: Fix backtrace display.
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> Sat, 18 Apr 2020 17:46:30 +0200
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux)
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> Hey,
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> > Please add (gnu installer utils) to the list of use-modules.
> > ‘@@’ should only be used in extreme situations.
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> Fixed and pushed!
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> Thanks,
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> Mathieu
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