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Refactor error message #4153

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32 changes: 20 additions & 12 deletions archinstall/main.py
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Expand Up @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
import importlib
import os
import sys
import textwrap
import time
import traceback

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -100,6 +101,22 @@ def run() -> int:
return 0


def _error_message(exc: Exception) -> None:
err = ''.join(traceback.format_exception(exc))
error(err)

text = textwrap.dedent(
"""\
Archinstall experienced the above error. If you think this is a bug, please report it to
https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall and include the log file "/var/log/archinstall/install.log".

Hint: To extract the log from a live ISO
curl -F 'file=@/var/log/archinstall/install.log' https://0x0.st
"""
)
warn(text)


def main() -> int:
rc = 0
exc = None
Expand All @@ -110,20 +127,11 @@ def main() -> int:
exc = e
finally:
if exc:
err = ''.join(traceback.format_exception(exc))
error(err)

text = (
'Archinstall experienced the above error. If you think this is a bug, please report it to\n'
'https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall and include the log file "/var/log/archinstall/install.log".\n\n'
"Hint: To extract the log from a live ISO \ncurl -F 'file=@/var/log/archinstall/install.log' https://0x0.st\n"
)

warn(text)
_error_message(exc)
rc = 1

sys.exit(rc)
return rc


if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
sys.exit(main())