When tried to use Drush the first time I got the error message "Drush command could not be completed".
Neither verbose nor debugging mode gave me enough information to figure out what the problem was.
Googling around turned out the problem was that Gentoo does not include "SimpleXML"-support as the default setting.

I possible improvement could be to run something like this during bootstrapping:

if [ "$(php -m | grep -c SimpleXML)" -eq 0 ]; then echo "You don't have simplexml support in php"; fi

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greg.1.anderson’s picture

greg.1.anderson commented

This should go at the end, after failure, so that every command does not take a performance hit for the SimpleXML check.

Patches welcome.

Letharion’s picture

Letharion commented

I will have a look at it. Wanna give me a hint on what files/functions I should start looking at to get handle on the error handling?

greg.1.anderson’s picture

greg.1.anderson commented

"Drush command could not be completed" is in drush.php around line 154. It would be appropriate to put diagnostic checks here to help the user figure out why their system is not working.

greg.1.anderson’s picture

greg.1.anderson commented
Version: All-Versions-2.1 » 8.x-6.x-dev
Component: Code » Base system (internal API)
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)
Issue tags: +Needs migration

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