From 132826dbe1e73a4ab0066078dacb46cc8f1d290b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benno Stein <benno.stein@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 1 May 2025 10:43:02 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Print reason for service initialization failure

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 skipruntime-ts/server/src/server.ts | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/skipruntime-ts/server/src/server.ts b/skipruntime-ts/server/src/server.ts
index 8ca326e929..88264b5d4b 100644
--- a/skipruntime-ts/server/src/server.ts
+++ b/skipruntime-ts/server/src/server.ts
@@ -136,7 +136,10 @@ export async function runService(
       throw e;
     }
   }
-  const instance = await runtime.initService(service);
+  const instance = await runtime.initService(service).catch((e: unknown) => {
+    console.error("Service could not be initialized; reason: ", e);
+    throw e;
+  });
 
   const controlApp = express();
   controlApp.use(logger_middleware);