Error handling cmd history (#1560)

* If we encounter a FileNotFoundError, the cmd_history.txt file or parent directory does not exist. This leads to vague errors upstream of cmd executable file not existing if this is the case. Probably this is a valid situation and we should just pass on the error.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/archinstall/lib/general.py b/archinstall/lib/general.py
index bf32a9a8..5fd655a2 100644
--- a/archinstall/lib/general.py
+++ b/archinstall/lib/general.py
@@ -391,6 +391,13 @@ class SysCommandWorker:
 						os.chmod(str(history_logfile), stat.S_IRUSR | stat.S_IWUSR | stat.S_IRGRP)
 				except PermissionError:
 					pass
+				# If history_logfile does not exist, ignore the error
+				except FileNotFoundError:
+					pass
+				except Exception as e:
+					exception_type = type(e).__name__
+					log(f"Unexpected {exception_type} occurred in {self.cmd}: {e}", level=logging.ERROR)
+					raise e
 
 				os.execve(self.cmd[0], list(self.cmd), {**os.environ, **self.environment_vars})
 				if storage['arguments'].get('debug'):