[debbugs-tracker] bug#32593: closed (bad error message when kernel module does not exist)

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and subject line Re: bug#32593: bad error message when kernel module does not 
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has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #32593,
regarding bad error message when kernel module does not exist
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> bad error message when kernel module does not exist
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> When a system is built that requests a kernel module that does not
> exists, this is the error message a user will see:
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> Backtrace:
>            8 (primitive-load "/gnu/store/vz7ci9rh483f2zps2cl174rd91b?")
> In ice-9/eval.scm:
>     619:8  7 (_ #f)
>    626:19  6 (_ #<directory (guile-user) 7cf140>)
>     159:9  5 (_ _)
> In gnu/build/linux-modules.scm:
>    184:47  4 (recursive-module-dependencies _ #:lookup-module _)
>     98:14  3 (module-dependencies _)
>     85:18  2 (modinfo-section-contents _)
> In ice-9/ports.scm:
>    439:11  1 (call-with-input-file #f #<procedure get-bytevector-al?> ?)
> In unknown file:
>            0 (open-file #f "r" #:encoding #f #:guess-encoding #f)
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> ERROR: In procedure open-file:
> Wrong type (expecting string): #f
> builder for `/gnu/store/0ahsvp7wx52zzh1rywbdbq78llcwb7id-linux-modules.drv' 
> failed with exit code 1
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> Re: bug#32593: bad error message when kernel module does not exist
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> Sun, 02 Sep 2018 15:48:12 +0200
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> Hello,
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> Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:
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> > When a system is built that requests a kernel module that does not
> > exists, this is the error message a user will see:
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> > Backtrace:
> >            8 (primitive-load "/gnu/store/vz7ci9rh483f2zps2cl174rd91b?")
> > In ice-9/eval.scm:
> >     619:8  7 (_ #f)
> >    626:19  6 (_ #<directory (guile-user) 7cf140>)
> >     159:9  5 (_ _)
> > In gnu/build/linux-modules.scm:
> >    184:47  4 (recursive-module-dependencies _ #:lookup-module _)
> >     98:14  3 (module-dependencies _)
> >     85:18  2 (modinfo-section-contents _)
> > In ice-9/ports.scm:
> >    439:11  1 (call-with-input-file #f #<procedure get-bytevector-al?> ?)
> > In unknown file:
> >            0 (open-file #f "r" #:encoding #f #:guess-encoding #f)
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> > ERROR: In procedure open-file:
> > Wrong type (expecting string): #f
> > builder for `/gnu/store/0ahsvp7wx52zzh1rywbdbq78llcwb7id-linux-modules.drv' 
> > failed with exit code 1
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> This project is incredible: the bug was fixed even before you had
> reported it, in commit 4db7a9dc663c5b26e45ec35538bf68ff87acdf7b.  :-)
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> You still get a backtrace, but at least the error message is somewhat
> clearer.  (Should we do away with the backtrace?)
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> Ludo’.
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