[Swift-devel] Re: [Bug 183] Print better error message when app executable is not found

[David Kelly]

Sarah,

I saw this error when I copied configuration files from one machine to
another. The application I was trying to run was in my home directory, but I
was logged in under a username so the path did not exist. The error message
I got was too vague to understand why my script failed - it was just
something like "Job failed with an exit code of 254". It didn't say which
job, or what that meant. I thought it was something related to the scheduler
I was trying to use. I have only tested this with 0.92.1. I did not try it
on trunk, so maybe this has already been fixed. I will try it again today to
see if I can reproduce it.

David

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 1:05 AM, Sarah Kenny <skenny at uchicago.edu> wrote:

> hey david, i've been trying to replicate this bug, but when i deliberately
> point to an executable that doesn't exist i get what seems to be an
> appropriate error:
>
> The executable /bin/echoo does not exist
>
> i got this on a couple of sites...can you give a little more info on what
> was happening with your workflow? could be i'm misunderstanding the bug.
>
> ~sk
>
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 9:31 PM, <bugzilla-daemon at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>
>> https://bugzilla.mcs.anl.gov/swift/show_bug.cgi?id=183
>>
>>
>> David Kelly <davidkelly999 at gmail.com> changed:
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>>           What    |Removed                     |Added
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>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>                 CC|                            |davidkelly999 at gmail.com
>>          Component|SwiftScript language        |error messages
>>         AssignedTo|benc at hawaga.org.uk          |skenny at uchicago.edu
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>>
>>
>>
>> --- Comment #1 from David Kelly <davidkelly999 at gmail.com>  2011-06-10
>> 23:32:22 ---
>> This one gets my vote.. I just wasted a bunch of time trying to figure out
>> what
>> this error meant and why I was getting it.
>>
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