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    python/machine: raise VMLaunchFailure exception from launch() · 50465f94
    John Snow authored
    
    
    This allows us to pack in some extra information about the failure,
    which guarantees that if the caller did not *intentionally* cause a
    failure (by capturing this Exception), some pretty good clues will be
    printed at the bottom of the traceback information.
    
    This will help make failures in the event of a non-negative return code
    more obvious when they go unhandled; the current behavior in
    _post_shutdown() is to print a warning message only in the event of
    signal-based terminations (for negative return codes).
    
    (Note: In Python, catching BaseException instead of Exception catches a
    broader array of Exception events, including SystemExit and
    KeyboardInterrupt. We do not want to "wrap" such exceptions as a
    VMLaunchFailure, because that will 'downgrade' the exception from a
    BaseException to a regular Exception. We do, however, want to perform
    cleanup in either case, so catch on the broadest scope and
    wrap-and-re-raise only in the more targeted scope.)
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarHanna Reitz <hreitz@redhat.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarKevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
    Message-id: 20220201041134.1237016-3-jsnow@redhat.com
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
    50465f94
    python/machine: raise VMLaunchFailure exception from launch()
    John Snow authored
    
    
    This allows us to pack in some extra information about the failure,
    which guarantees that if the caller did not *intentionally* cause a
    failure (by capturing this Exception), some pretty good clues will be
    printed at the bottom of the traceback information.
    
    This will help make failures in the event of a non-negative return code
    more obvious when they go unhandled; the current behavior in
    _post_shutdown() is to print a warning message only in the event of
    signal-based terminations (for negative return codes).
    
    (Note: In Python, catching BaseException instead of Exception catches a
    broader array of Exception events, including SystemExit and
    KeyboardInterrupt. We do not want to "wrap" such exceptions as a
    VMLaunchFailure, because that will 'downgrade' the exception from a
    BaseException to a regular Exception. We do, however, want to perform
    cleanup in either case, so catch on the broadest scope and
    wrap-and-re-raise only in the more targeted scope.)
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarHanna Reitz <hreitz@redhat.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarKevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
    Message-id: 20220201041134.1237016-3-jsnow@redhat.com
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
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