Prevent exceptions being thrown through Qt's event loop

Change-Id: I18b20da2b9245205b5fca1034ae63a0a53dafa5e
Reviewed-by: Bernd Weimer <bernd.weimer@qt.io>
(cherry picked from commit 621defdf3addaa70b618e177e90ddfab218d26fc)
Reviewed-by: Qt Cherry-pick Bot <cherrypick_bot@qt-project.org>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/tools/launcher-qml/launcher-qml.cpp b/src/tools/launcher-qml/launcher-qml.cpp
index b6f2c229..b7481359 100644
--- a/src/tools/launcher-qml/launcher-qml.cpp
+++ b/src/tools/launcher-qml/launcher-qml.cpp
@@ -430,7 +430,14 @@ void Controller::startApplication(const QString &baseDir, const QString &qmlFile
     QCoreApplication::instance()->installEventFilter(this);
 
     QStringList startupPluginFiles = variantToStringList(m_configuration.value(qSL("plugins")).toMap().value(qSL("startup")));
-    auto startupPlugins = loadPlugins<StartupInterface>("startup", startupPluginFiles);
+    QVector<StartupInterface *> startupPlugins;
+    try {
+        startupPlugins = loadPlugins<StartupInterface>("startup", startupPluginFiles);
+    } catch (const Exception &e) {
+        qCCritical(LogQmlRuntime) << qPrintable(e.errorString());
+        QCoreApplication::exit(2);
+        return;
+    }
     for (StartupInterface *iface : qAsConst(startupPlugins))
         iface->initialize(m_applicationInterface ? m_applicationInterface->systemProperties() : QVariantMap());