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

[Sarah Kenny]

yeah, if you're able to reproduce david that might be helpful. i get the
same behavior with the stable release and trunk. i also get the correct
error if i simply don't have execute permission on the executable.

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 9:37 AM, David Kelly <davidkelly999 at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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:
>>>
>>>           What    |Removed                     |Added
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>                 CC|                            |davidkelly999 at gmail.com
>>>          Component|SwiftScript language        |error messages
>>>         AssignedTo|benc at hawaga.org.uk          |skenny at uchicago.edu
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --- 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.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Configure bugmail:
>>> https://bugzilla.mcs.anl.gov/swift/userprefs.cgi?tab=email
>>> ------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
>>> You are the assignee for the bug.
>>>
>>
>>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/swift-devel/attachments/20110615/1062741f/attachment.html>