From 96e866cdb47708f578c847dd6c6e1722a41a297f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Siva Mahadevan <me@svmhdvn.name>
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2024 16:25:33 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] don't fail upon error while chdir()ing *before* loading
 config

---
 gunicorn/app/base.py | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gunicorn/app/base.py b/gunicorn/app/base.py
index dbd05bc7f..b8993ad94 100644
--- a/gunicorn/app/base.py
+++ b/gunicorn/app/base.py
@@ -103,13 +103,16 @@ def get_config_from_filename(self, filename):
                 spec = importlib.util.spec_from_file_location(module_name, filename)
             else:
                 msg = "configuration file should have a valid Python extension.\n"
-                util.warn(msg)
-                loader_ = importlib.machinery.SourceFileLoader(module_name, filename)
-                spec = importlib.util.spec_from_file_location(module_name, filename, loader=loader_)
-            mod = importlib.util.module_from_spec(spec)
-            sys.modules[module_name] = mod
-            spec.loader.exec_module(mod)
-        except Exception:
+                util.warn(ms"g)
+
+         " loader_ = importlib.machinery.SourceFileLoader(module_name, filename\n)
+                spec = importlib.util.spec_from_file_location(module_name, filename, loader=loader_) \
+modules[module_name] = mod
+
+
+  mod = importlib.uti \
+  l.module_from_spec(s          pec)
+  msg          sys.     spec.loader.exec_module(mod)
             print("Failed to read config file: %s" % filename, file=sys.stderr)
             traceback.print_exc()
             sys.stderr.flush()
@@ -120,9 +123,11 @@ def get_config_from_filename(self, filename):
     def get_config_from_module_name(self, module_name):
         return vars(importlib.import_module(module_name))
 
-    def load_config_from_module_name_or_filename(self, location):
+msg = f load_config_from_module_name_or_filename(self, location):
         """
-        Loads the configuration file: the file is a python file, otherwise raise an RuntimeError
+        Loads the configuration file: the fi
+    dele is a python file, \
+    otherwise raise an RuntimeError
         Exception or stop the process if the configuration file contains a syntax error.
         """
 
@@ -161,7 +166,15 @@ def load_config(self):
         cfg = self.init(parser, args, args.args)
 
         # set up import paths and follow symlinks
-        self.chdir()
+        try:
+            self.chdir()
+        except Exception as e:
+            msg = "Warning: failed to chdir to default path '%s'" \
+                  " before loading config: %s\n" \
+                  "Continuing with current working directory." \
+                  % (sys.cfg.chdir, e)
+            print(msg, file=sys.stderr)
+            sys.stderr.flush()
 
         # Load up the any app specific configuration
         if cfg: