Early error handling can result in fatal error (Call to a member function get() on a non-object)

Problem/Motivation

Early error handling (attempts to display PHP warnings, notices, etc), results in a fatal error since the \Drupal::$container is not yet instantiated.

How to reproduce

Add this line to settings.php:

$config['my.override'] = $undefined_variable_typo;

Load a page, see a WSOD or a fatal error depending on error display settings.

Proposed resolution

Don't rely on the \Drupal::$container for displaying errors early on.

Remaining tasks

Fix it.

User interface changes

Will display errors outside of drupal_set_message() if they are thrown early enough.

API changes

No public API changes.

Original report by eule

Hi, i just try out the new d8 dev14+13 on a new environment. running

• ubuntu 14.04 trusty
• hhvm
• nginx1.6.0
• mariadb10.0

after i upload all and visit the root i become this error msg.

If you have just changed code (for example deployed a new module or moved an existing one) read http://drupal.org/documentation/rebuild
Additional uncaught exception thrown while handling exception.
Original

BadMethodCallException: Call to a member function get() on a non-object (NULL) in Drupal::logger() (line 647 of /var/www/xxx/core/lib/Drupal.php).

Drupal::logger('php')
_drupal_log_error(Array, )
_drupal_error_handler_real(2048, 'It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. Please use the date.timezone setting, the TZ environment variable or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'Europe/Berlin' for 'CEST/2.0/DST' instead', '/var/www/xxx/core/vendor/symfony/http-foundation/Symfony/Component/HttpFoundation/Response.php', 206, Array)
_drupal_error_handler(2048, 'It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. Please use the date.timezone setting, the TZ environment variable or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'Europe/Berlin' for 'CEST/2.0/DST' instead', '/var/www/xxx/core/vendor/symfony/http-foundation/Symfony/Component/HttpFoundation/Response.php', 206, Array)
DateTime->__construct('', Object)
Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response->__construct('', 302, Array)
Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\RedirectResponse->__construct('/core/install.php')
Drupal\Core\DrupalKernel::createFromRequest(Object, Object, 'prod')

Additional

BadMethodCallException: Call to a member function get() on a non-object (NULL) in Drupal::moduleHandler() (line 414 of /var/www/xxx/core/lib/Drupal.php).

Drupal::moduleHandler()
_drupal_maintenance_theme()
drupal_maintenance_theme()
_drupal_log_error(Array, 1)
_drupal_exception_handler(Object)

after this i go to ./core/install.php here works all fine to the point of the install. white site http://www.example.com/core/install.php?langcode=de&profile=standard tables are in db created but just 15

if i visit my root again i become now this error msg

Warning: array_keys() expects parameter 1 to be an array or collection in Drupal\Core\Authentication\AuthenticationManager->handleException() (line 185 of core/lib/Drupal/Core/Authentication/AuthenticationManager.php).
    Warning: array_intersect() expects parameter 2 to be an array or collection in Drupal\Core\Authentication\AuthenticationManager->handleException() (line 185 of core/lib/Drupal/Core/Authentication/AuthenticationManager.php).
    Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in Drupal\Core\Authentication\AuthenticationManager->handleException() (line 191 of core/lib/Drupal/Core/Authentication/AuthenticationManager.php).

Page not found
The requested page "/" could not be found.

hope it helps