[engine] Nicer handling of module exceptions

Do not throw exceptions during exception handling, that causes really
hard-to-interpret error messages.

Instead, log a message and throw outside the exception handler (the code
could do with some cleanup, but is localized enough for now).

see #367

bumblebee/engine.py

@@ -241,10 +241,14 @@ class Engine(object):
             module_name = self._aliases[module_name]
         if config_name is None:
             config_name = module_name
+        err = None
         try:
             module = importlib.import_module("bumblebee.modules.{}".format(module_name))
         except ImportError as error:
-            raise bumblebee.error.ModuleLoadError(error)
+            err = error
+            log.fatal("failed to import {}: {}".format(module_name, str(error)))
+        if err:
+            raise bumblebee.error.ModuleLoadError("unable to load module {}: {}".format(module_name, str(err)))
         return getattr(module, "Module")(self, {
             "name": config_name,
             "config": self._config

bumblebee/modules/nic.py

@@ -11,14 +11,8 @@ Parameters:
     * nic.format: Format string (defaults to "{intf} {state} {ip} {ssid}")
 """
 
-import logging
+import netifaces
-log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+import subprocess21
-
-try:
-    import netifaces
-    import subprocess
-except ImportError as e:
-    log.warning("failed to import nic: {}".format(e))
 
 import bumblebee.util
 import bumblebee.input