ukify: catch error when loading foreign pe file

The autodetection code is supposed to throw ValueError when it
cannot figure out the version so that we fall back to the next method.
With the patch:
  Kernel version not specified, starting autodetection 😖.
  Real-Mode Kernel Header magic not found
  + readelf --notes vmlinuz/arm64/vmlinuz-6.0.9-300.fc37.aarch64
  readelf: vmlinuz/arm64/vmlinuz-6.0.9-300.fc37.aarch64: Error: Not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start
  Found uname version: 6.0.9-300.fc37.aarch64

diff --git a/src/ukify/ukify.py b/src/ukify/ukify.py
index e9e5d13d13ef309b7dba7c2b2672f1ceed43f2f0..cd27f92a97805b844340f40097782d3a637bb681 100755 (executable)
--- a/src/ukify/ukify.py
+++ b/src/ukify/ukify.py
@@ -161,7 +161,10 @@ class Uname:
         ]
 
         print('+', shell_join(cmd))
-        notes = subprocess.check_output(cmd, text=True)
+        try:
+            notes = subprocess.check_output(cmd, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, text=True)
+        except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e:
+            raise ValueError(e.stderr.strip()) from e
 
         if not (m := re.search(cls.NOTES_PATTERN, notes, re.MULTILINE)):
             raise ValueError('Cannot find Linux version note')