Provide more error information to logs

Provides full stack instead of just message

app.js

@@ -192,7 +192,8 @@ function setup() {
 		process.stdout.write('\n' + separator + '\n\n');
 
 		if (err) {
-			winston.error('There was a problem completing NodeBB setup: ', err.message);
+			winston.error('There was a problem completing NodeBB setup', err);
+			throw err;
 		} else {
 			if (data.hasOwnProperty('password')) {
 				process.stdout.write('An administrative user was automatically created for you:\n');
@@ -270,9 +271,10 @@ function activate() {
 		},
 	], function (err) {
 		if (err) {
-			winston.error(err.message);
+			winston.error('An error occurred during plugin activation', err);
+			throw err;
 		}
-		process.exit(err ? 1 : 0);
+		process.exit(0);
 	});
 }
 

loader.js

@@ -158,8 +158,8 @@ Loader.restart = function () {
 
 	fs.readFile(pathToConfig, { encoding: 'utf-8' }, function (err, configFile) {
 		if (err) {
-			console.log('Error reading config : ' + err.message);
+			console.error('Error reading config');
-			process.exit();
+			throw err;
 		}
 
 		var conf = JSON.parse(configFile);
@@ -240,11 +240,12 @@ fs.open(path.join(__dirname, 'config.json'), 'r', function (err) {
 			Loader.start,
 		], function (err) {
 			if (err) {
-				console.log('[loader] Error during startup: ' + err.message);
+				console.error('[loader] Error during startup');
+				throw err;
 			}
 		});
 	} else {
 		// No config detected, kickstart web installer
-		require('child_process').fork('app');
+		fork('app');
 	}
 });

nodebb

@@ -451,7 +451,8 @@ var commands = {
 
 				return upgradeProc.on('close', function (err) {
 					if (err) {
-						process.stdout.write('\nError'.red + ': ' + err.message + '\n');
+						process.stdout.write('Error occurred during upgrade');
+						throw err;
 					}
 				});
 			}
@@ -472,11 +473,14 @@ var commands = {
 					var upgradeProc = fork(arr);
 
 					upgradeProc.on('close', next);
+					upgradeProc.on('error', next);
 				},
 			], function (err) {
 				if (err) {
-					process.stdout.write('\nError'.red + ': ' + err.message + '\n');
+					process.stdout.write('Error occurred during upgrade');
-				} else {
+					throw err;
+				}
+
 				var message = 'NodeBB Upgrade Complete!';
 				// some consoles will return undefined/zero columns, so just use 2 spaces in upgrade script if we can't get our column count
 				var columns = process.stdout.columns;
@@ -484,7 +488,6 @@ var commands = {
 
 				process.stdout.write('OK\n'.green);
 				process.stdout.write('\n' + spaces + message.green.bold + '\n\n'.reset);
-				}
 			});
 		},
 	},

src/analytics.js

@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ Analytics.writeData = function (callback) {
 
 	async.parallel(dbQueue, function (err) {
 		if (err) {
-			winston.error('[analytics] Encountered error while writing analytics to data store: ' + err.message);
+			winston.error('[analytics] Encountered error while writing analytics to data store', err);
 		}
 		callback(err);
 	});

src/database/mongo.js

@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ mongoModule.init = function (callback) {
 
 	mongoClient.connect(connString, connOptions, function (err, _db) {
 		if (err) {
-			winston.error('NodeBB could not connect to your Mongo database. Mongo returned the following error: ' + err.message);
+			winston.error('NodeBB could not connect to your Mongo database. Mongo returned the following error', err);
 			return callback(err);
 		}
 
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ mongoModule.createIndices = function (callback) {
 		async.apply(createIndex, 'objects', { expireAt: 1 }, { expireAfterSeconds: 0, background: true }),
 	], function (err) {
 		if (err) {
-			winston.error('Error creating index ' + err.message);
+			winston.error('Error creating index', err);
 			return callback(err);
 		}
 		winston.info('[database] Checking database indices done!');

src/database/redis.js

@@ -99,8 +99,8 @@ redisModule.connect = function (options) {
 	if (dbIdx >= 0) {
 		cxn.select(dbIdx, function (err) {
 			if (err) {
-				winston.error('NodeBB could not connect to your Redis database. Redis returned the following error: ' + err.message);
+				winston.error('NodeBB could not connect to your Redis database. Redis returned the following error', err);
-				process.exit();
+				throw err;
 			}
 		});
 	}

src/events.js

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 
 var async = require('async');
 var validator = require('validator');
+var winston = require('winston');
 
 var db = require('./database');
 var batch = require('./batch');
@@ -143,8 +144,8 @@ events.output = function () {
 	process.stdout.write('\nDisplaying last ten administrative events...\n'.bold);
 	events.getEvents(0, 9, function (err, events) {
 		if (err) {
-			process.stdout.write('    Error '.red + String(err.message).reset);
+			winston.error('Error fetching events', err);
-			process.exit(1);
+			throw err;
 		}
 
 		events.forEach(function (event) {

src/flags.js

@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ Flags.init = function (callback) {
 		},
 	}, function (err, data) {
 		if (err) {
-			winston.error('[flags/init] Could not retrieve filters (error: ' + err.message + ')');
+			winston.error('[flags/init] Could not retrieve filters', err);
 			data.filters = {};
 		}
 

src/groups/membership.js

@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ module.exports = function (Groups) {
 					hidden: 1,
 				}, function (err) {
 					if (err && err.message !== '[[error:group-already-exists]]') {
-						winston.error('[groups.join] Could not create new hidden group: ' + err.message);
+						winston.error('[groups.join] Could not create new hidden group', err);
 						return callback(err);
 					}
 					next();

src/install.js

@@ -542,7 +542,7 @@ install.save = function (server_conf, callback) {
 
 	fs.writeFile(serverConfigPath, JSON.stringify(server_conf, null, 4), function (err) {
 		if (err) {
-			winston.error('Error saving server configuration! ' + err.message);
+			winston.error('Error saving server configuration!', err);
 			return callback(err);
 		}
 

src/logger.js

@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ Logger.open = function (value) {
 
 		if (stream) {
 			stream.on('error', function (err) {
-				winston.error(err.message);
+				winston.error(err);
 			});
 		}
 	} else {

src/meta/build.js

@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ function beforeBuild(targets, callback) {
 		async.apply(plugins.prepareForBuild, targets),
 	], function (err) {
 		if (err) {
-			winston.error('[build] Encountered error preparing for build: ' + err.message);
+			winston.error('[build] Encountered error preparing for build', err);
 			return callback(err);
 		}
 
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ function build(targets, callback) {
 		},
 	], function (err) {
 		if (err) {
-			winston.error('[build] Encountered error during build step: ' + err.message);
+			winston.error('[build] Encountered error during build step', err);
 			return callback(err);
 		}
 

src/meta/cacheBuster.js

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ exports.read = function read(callback) {
 
 	fs.readFile(filePath, function (err, buffer) {
 		if (err) {
-			winston.warn('[cache-buster] could not read cache buster: ' + err.message);
+			winston.warn('[cache-buster] could not read cache buster', err);
 			return callback(null, generate());
 		}
 

src/meta/languages.js

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 'use strict';
 
-var winston = require('winston');
 var path = require('path');
 var async = require('async');
 var fs = require('fs');
@@ -182,11 +181,5 @@ exports.build = function buildLanguages(callback) {
 		},
 		getTranslationTree,
 		writeLanguageFiles,
-	], function (err) {
+	], callback);
-		if (err) {
-			winston.error('[build] Language build failed: ' + err.message);
-			throw err;
-		}
-		callback();
-	});
 };

src/middleware/render.js

@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ module.exports = function (middleware) {
 			try {
 				p = decodeURIComponent(p);
 			} catch (err) {
-				winston.error(err.message);
+				winston.error(err);
 				p = '';
 			}
 			p = validator.escape(String(p));

src/notifications.js

@@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ Notifications.prune = function (callback) {
 		},
 	], function (err) {
 		if (err) {
-			winston.error('Encountered error pruning notifications: ' + err.message);
+			winston.error('Encountered error pruning notifications', err);
 		}
 		callback(err);
 	});

src/plugins.js

@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ Plugins.init = function (nbbApp, nbbMiddleware, callback) {
 
 	Plugins.reload(function (err) {
 		if (err) {
-			winston.error('[plugins] NodeBB encountered a problem while loading plugins', err.message);
+			winston.error('[plugins] NodeBB encountered a problem while loading plugins', err);
 			return callback(err);
 		}
 
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ Plugins.reloadRoutes = function (callback) {
 	var controllers = require('./controllers');
 	Plugins.fireHook('static:app.load', { app: app, router: router, middleware: middleware, controllers: controllers }, function (err) {
 		if (err) {
-			winston.error('[plugins] Encountered error while executing post-router plugins hooks: ' + err.message);
+			winston.error('[plugins] Encountered error while executing post-router plugins hooks', err);
 			return callback(err);
 		}
 
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ Plugins.list = function (matching, callback) {
 		json: true,
 	}, function (err, res, body) {
 		if (err) {
-			winston.error('Error parsing plugins : ' + err.message);
+			winston.error('Error parsing plugins', err);
 			return callback(err);
 		}
 

src/plugins/data.js

@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ function loadPluginInfo(pluginPath, callback) {
 		} catch (err) {
 			var pluginDir = path.basename(pluginPath);
 
-			winston.error('[plugins/' + pluginDir + '] Error in plugin.json or package.json! ' + err.message);
+			winston.error('[plugins/' + pluginDir + '] Error in plugin.json or package.json!', err);
 			return callback(new Error('[[error:parse-error]]'));
 		}
 

src/reset.js

@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ var Reset = {};
 Reset.reset = function (callback) {
 	db.init(function (err) {
 		if (err) {
-			winston.error(err.message);
+			winston.error(err);
-			process.exit(1);
+			throw err;
 		}
 
 		if (nconf.get('t')) {
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ Reset.reset = function (callback) {
 				if (!err) {
 					winston.info('[reset] Reset complete.');
 				} else {
-					winston.error('[reset] Errors were encountered while resetting your forum settings: %s', err.message);
+					winston.error('[reset] Errors were encountered while resetting your forum settings: %s', err);
 				}
 
 				callback();
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ function resetPlugin(pluginId, callback) {
 		},
 	], function (err) {
 		if (err) {
-			winston.error('[reset] Could not disable plugin: %s encountered error %s', pluginId, err.message);
+			winston.error('[reset] Could not disable plugin: %s encountered error %s', pluginId, err);
 		} else if (active) {
 			winston.info('[reset] Plugin `%s` disabled', pluginId);
 		} else {

src/user/digest.js

@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ Digest.execute = function (payload, callback) {
 		},
 	], function (err, count) {
 		if (err) {
-			winston.error('[user/jobs] Could not send digests (' + payload.interval + '): ' + err.message);
+			winston.error('[user/jobs] Could not send digests (' + payload.interval + ')', err);
 		} else {
 			winston.info('[user/jobs] Digest (' + payload.interval + ') scheduling completed. ' + count + ' email(s) sent.');
 		}

src/webserver.js

@@ -43,13 +43,13 @@ if (nconf.get('ssl')) {
 module.exports.server = server;
 
 server.on('error', function (err) {
-	winston.error(err);
 	if (err.code === 'EADDRINUSE') {
-		winston.error('NodeBB address in use, exiting...');
+		winston.error('NodeBB address in use, exiting...', err);
-		process.exit(1);
 	} else {
-		throw err;
+		winston.error(err);
 	}
+
+	throw err;
 });
 
 module.exports.listen = function (callback) {
@@ -301,13 +301,12 @@ function listen(callback) {
 	if (isSocket) {
 		oldUmask = process.umask('0000');
 		module.exports.testSocket(socketPath, function (err) {
-			if (!err) {
+			if (err) {
-				server.listen.apply(server, args);
+				winston.error('[startup] NodeBB was unable to secure domain socket access (' + socketPath + ')', err);
-			} else {
+				throw err;
-				winston.error('[startup] NodeBB was unable to secure domain socket access (' + socketPath + ')');
-				winston.error('[startup] ' + err.message);
-				process.exit();
 			}
+
+			server.listen.apply(server, args);
 		});
 	} else {
 		server.listen.apply(server, args);