Summary

chicken-install: Error: (string->number) bad argument type: #!eof

Metadata

• Id: 280deb5a3e49e61c24a0bb1b1931f31484ec1513
• Trac id: 1744
• Type: defect
• Reporter: mario
• Owner:
• Cc:
• Status: closed
• Component: core tools
• Estimated difficulty:
• Resolution: fixed
• Priority: major
• Milestone: someday
• Version: 5.2.0
• Changetime: 2021-04-15 19:53:30 UTC
• Created: 2021-04-01 20:57:39 UTC
• Keywords: chicken-install

Description

Quite often we see this error in salmonella logs. It's probably caused by glitches on the server side, which are not properly handled on the client side. It happens with both C4 and C5. Examples:

• https://salmonella-linux-x86-64.call-cc.org/chicken-4-debugbuild/gcc/linux/x86-64/2021/03/31/salmonella-report/install/pastiche.html
• http://salmonella-linux-x86.call-cc.org/master-debugbuild/gcc/linux/x86/2021/03/28/yesterday-diff/log1/install/utf8.html
• http://salmonella-linux-x86.call-cc.org/master-debugbuild/gcc/linux/x86/2021/03/26/yesterday-diff/log1/install/salmonella-feeds.html
• http://salmonella-linux-x86.call-cc.org/master-debugbuild/gcc/linux/x86/2021/03/24/yesterday-diff/log1/install/srfi-132.html

Changes and comments

[2021-04-01 22:14:24 UTC] mario wrote:

Patches submitted to chicken-hackers: https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-hackers/2021-04/msg00000.html

[2021-04-15 19:53:30 UTC] mario changed status from new to closed

[2021-04-15 19:53:30 UTC] mario set resolution to fixed

[2021-04-15 19:53:30 UTC] mario wrote:

Patches have been merged:

• 617d2dee613a1c48e27a1d9c72927763f895e0f2 in master
• f8630018c50b33d5b3abd156ac51a649201abd81 in chicken-4