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authorMathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com>2018-12-06 11:11:04 +0900
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2019-01-17 14:04:25 +0100
commit133c401f774d803f92933e9cadb6791641913beb (patch)
tree061febdce714640ce2d26570f0d2c67c068f6fcf /gnu/installer.scm
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installer: Display an eventual backtrace in a page.
* gnu/installer.scm (installer-program): Write the backtrace in "/tmp/last-installer-error" and pass the filename to installer-exit-error. * gnu/installer/newt.scm (exit-error): Display the file passed above in a textbox.
Diffstat (limited to 'gnu/installer.scm')
-rw-r--r--gnu/installer.scm19
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/installer.scm b/gnu/installer.scm
index 586ed29a59..2f01d39d1a 100644
--- a/gnu/installer.scm
+++ b/gnu/installer.scm
@@ -333,16 +333,15 @@ selected keymap."
#:steps steps))
(const #f)
(lambda (key . args)
- ((installer-exit-error current-installer) key args)
-
- ;; Be sure to call newt-finish, to restore the terminal into
- ;; its original state before printing the error report.
- (call-with-output-file "/tmp/error"
- (lambda (port)
- (display-backtrace (make-stack #t) port)
- (print-exception port
- (stack-ref (make-stack #t) 1)
- key args)))
+ (let ((error-file "/tmp/last-installer-error"))
+ (call-with-output-file error-file
+ (lambda (port)
+ (display-backtrace (make-stack #t) port)
+ (print-exception port
+ (stack-ref (make-stack #t) 1)
+ key args)))
+ ((installer-exit-error current-installer)
+ error-file key args))
(primitive-exit 1)))
((installer-exit current-installer)))))))