[erlang-questions] Lager's "console_backend" not working

[Frank Muller]

Hi Jakub

So because of 2 (I'm on windows), only old-shell is available and thus I
can't get messages in the console :-/ ???

How people debug things in the console then?

/Frank

Hi,
> It's always good to look at the code:
>
> is_new_style_console_available() ->
>     %% Criteria:
>     %% 1. If the user has specified '-noshell' on the command line,
>     %%    then we will pretend that the new-style console is available.
>     %%    If there is no shell at all, then we don't have to worry
>     %%    about log events being blocked by the old-style shell.
>     %% 2. Windows doesn't support the new shell, so all windows users
>     %%    have is the oldshell.
>     %% 3. If the user_drv process is registered, all is OK.
>     %%    'user_drv' is a registered proc name used by the "new"
>     %%    console driver.
>
> [...]
>
> try {is_new_style_console_available(), lager_util:config_to_mask(Level)} of
>         {false, _} ->
>             Msg = "Lager's console backend is incompatible with the 'old'
> shell, not enabling it",
>
> 2017-04-10 22:19 GMT+02:00 Frank Muller <frank.muller.erl@REDACTED>:
>
> Hi,
>
> I’m using Lager in a basic Erlang app on Windows 7 (and even 10).
>
> Whenever I activate the console backend, I get this warning message:
>
> > WARNING: Lager's console backend is incompatible with the 'old' shell,
> not enabling it
>
>
> Can someone explain me what does it mean and how I can fix it?
>
> /Frank
>
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