From a0d96d5a74b2bec4ce37239154bf9873d612bb3a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Zellner <johannes@cloudron.io>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2025 17:34:55 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Do not swallow original error stack trace in box.js

---
 box.js | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/box.js b/box.js
index 4f51b9a77..6fd723a7b 100755
--- a/box.js
+++ b/box.js
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ async function setupNetworking() {
 // this is also used as the 'uncaughtException' handler which can only have synchronous functions
 function exitSync(status) {
     const ts = new Date().toISOString();
+    if (status.message) fs.write(logFd, `${ts} ${status.message}\n`, function () {});
     const msg = status.error.stack.replace(/\n/g, `\n${ts} `); // prefix each line with ts
     if (status.error) fs.write(logFd, `${ts} ${msg}\n`, function () {});
     fs.fsyncSync(logFd);
@@ -55,7 +56,7 @@ async function startServers() {
 
 async function main() {
     const [error] = await safe(startServers());
-    if (error) return exitSync({ error: new Error(`Error starting server: ${error.message}`), code: 1 });
+    if (error) return exitSync({ error, code: 1, message: 'Error starting servers' });
 
     // require this here so that logging handler is already setup
     const debug = require('debug')('box:box');
@@ -96,7 +97,7 @@ async function main() {
         }, 2000); // need to wait for the task processes to die
     });
 
-    process.on('uncaughtException', (error) => exitSync({ error, code: 1 }));
+    process.on('uncaughtException', (error) => exitSync({ error, code: 1, message: 'From uncaughtException handler.' }));
 }
 
 main();