1 files changed, 24 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/bitbake/lib/bb/cooker.py b/bitbake/lib/bb/cooker.py
index a8e0a81dc9..ca37cfea95 100644
--- a/bitbake/lib/bb/cooker.py
+++ b/bitbake/lib/bb/cooker.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ import threading
 from io import StringIO, UnsupportedOperation
 from contextlib import closing
 from collections import defaultdict, namedtuple
-import bb, bb.exceptions, bb.command
+import bb, bb.command
 from bb import utils, data, parse, event, cache, providers, taskdata, runqueue, build
 import queue
 import signal
@@ -2096,7 +2096,6 @@ class Parser(multiprocessing.Process):
         except Exception as exc:
             tb = sys.exc_info()[2]
             exc.recipe = filename
-            exc.traceback = list(bb.exceptions.extract_traceback(tb, context=3))
             return True, None, exc
         # Need to turn BaseExceptions into Exceptions here so we gracefully shutdown
         # and for example a worker thread doesn't just exit on its own in response to
@@ -2297,8 +2296,12 @@ class CookerParser(object):
             return False
         except ParsingFailure as exc:
             self.error += 1
-            logger.error('Unable to parse %s: %s' %
-                     (exc.recipe, bb.exceptions.to_string(exc.realexception)))
+
+            exc_desc = str(exc)
+            if isinstance(exc, SystemExit) and not isinstance(exc.code, str):
+                exc_desc = 'Exited with "%d"' % exc.code
+
+            logger.error('Unable to parse %s: %s' % (exc.recipe, exc_desc))
             self.shutdown(clean=False)
             return False
         except bb.parse.ParseError as exc:
@@ -2307,20 +2310,33 @@ class CookerParser(object):
             self.shutdown(clean=False, eventmsg=str(exc))
             return False
         except bb.data_smart.ExpansionError as exc:
+            def skip_frames(f, fn_prefix):
+                while f and f.tb_frame.f_code.co_filename.startswith(fn_prefix):
+                    f = f.tb_next
+                return f
+
             self.error += 1
             bbdir = os.path.dirname(__file__) + os.sep
-            etype, value, _ = sys.exc_info()
-            tb = list(itertools.dropwhile(lambda e: e.filename.startswith(bbdir), exc.traceback))
+            etype, value, tb = sys.exc_info()
+
+            # Remove any frames where the code comes from bitbake. This
+            # prevents deep (and pretty useless) backtraces for expansion error
+            tb = skip_frames(tb, bbdir)
+            cur = tb
+            while cur:
+                cur.tb_next = skip_frames(cur.tb_next, bbdir)
+                cur = cur.tb_next
+
             logger.error('ExpansionError during parsing %s', value.recipe,
                          exc_info=(etype, value, tb))
             self.shutdown(clean=False)
             return False
         except Exception as exc:
             self.error += 1
-            etype, value, tb = sys.exc_info()
+            _, value, _ = sys.exc_info()
             if hasattr(value, "recipe"):
                 logger.error('Unable to parse %s' % value.recipe,
-                            exc_info=(etype, value, exc.traceback))
+                            exc_info=sys.exc_info())
             else:
                 # Most likely, an exception occurred during raising an exception
                 import traceback