What causes "Error in debug logging, exiting." in Semantic-Org/Semantic-UI?

Treat this as dead configuration: no action is needed because search.js never invokes it.

Error in debug logging, exiting.

Error message

Error in debug logging, exiting.

What it means

This string is declared in search.js settings.error.logging but is NOT wired to any module.error() call in this module (no throw site in search.js). It appears to be a reserved/legacy message intended for a debug-logging failure path that the current code never reaches. You should not encounter it from search.js in this version.

Source

Thrown at src/definitions/modules/search.js:1301

  onResultsOpen  : function(){},
  onResultsClose : function(){},

  className: {
    animating : 'animating',
    active    : 'active',
    empty     : 'empty',
    focus     : 'focus',
    hidden    : 'hidden',
    loading   : 'loading',
    results   : 'results',
    pressed   : 'down'
  },

  error : {
    source          : 'Cannot search. No source used, and Semantic API module was not included',
    noResults       : 'Your search returned no results',
    logging         : 'Error in debug logging, exiting.',
    noEndpoint      : 'No search endpoint was specified',
    noTemplate      : 'A valid template name was not specified.',
    oldSearchSyntax : 'searchFullText setting has been renamed fullTextSearch for consistency, please adjust your settings.',
    serverError     : 'There was an issue querying the server.',
    maxResults      : 'Results must be an array to use maxResults setting',
    method          : 'The method you called is not defined.'
  },

  metadata: {
    cache   : 'cache',
    results : 'results',
    result  : 'result'
  },

  regExp: {
    escape     : /[\-\[\]\/\{\}\(\)\*\+\?\.\\\^\$\|]/g,
    beginsWith : '(?:\s|^)'
  },

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Solutions

Treat this as dead configuration: no action is needed because search.js never invokes it.
If you are forking, either wire it into a try/catch around console.table/console.group usage or remove the unused key.
Search the full bundle/minified output to confirm no custom code calls settings.error.logging.

Defensive patterns

Strategy: validation

Validate before calling

// No runtime guard needed: confirm the string is unreferenced in your build
// Run once during build audit (bash): grep -rn "error.logging" src/definitions/modules/search.js

Prevention

Treat this as dead config; do not expect it to fire from search.js.
When forking, wire or remove unused error keys explicitly.
Audit settings.error keys against throw sites when upgrading.

When it happens

Trigger: No active code path in src/definitions/modules/search.js references error.logging; it cannot be produced by the current module. It would only appear if a custom build or downstream fork added a module.error(error.logging) call in a debug/performance logging branch.

Common situations: Seeing this string while grepping settings; assuming search threw it when in fact another log statement or a different module produced similar text; a forked/older version that previously called it.

Related errors

AI-assisted analysis of Semantic-Org/Semantic-UI@597843ab84 (2026-08-13). Data as JSON: /api/errors/07b36d726e1861b7. Report an issue: GitHub.