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diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 0aea888..14f8386 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -7,4 +7,11 @@ edition = "2021"
 
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 bytes = "1.1.0"
+color-eyre = "0.6.1"
 libc = "0.2.121"
+serde = { version = "1.0.136", features = ["derive"] }
+serde_cbor = "0.11.2"
+tracing = { version = "0.1.32", features = ["attributes"] }
+tracing-error = { version = "0.2.0" }
+tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3.9", features = ["tracing", "tracing-serde", "serde", "env-filter"] }
+#TODO: if we decide to use async (which may be useful for some options, and will be *single-threaded* tokio), add `tracing-futures` too
diff --git a/src/loli.rs b/src/loli.rs
index 5881e13..5a92d4a 100644
--- a/src/loli.rs
+++ b/src/loli.rs
@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ pub const DEFAULT_ERRNO_MESSAGE_BUFFER_SIZE: usize = 1024;
 pub const DEFAULT_ASCII_ERRNO_MESSAGE_BUFFER_SIZE: usize = 64;
 
 /// An error type which also contains an `errno` code.
+//TODO: A way to integrate this into eyre::Reports? Maybe in the extension trait? `.to_report_with_errno()` or something?
 pub trait SystemError: std::error::Error
 {
     fn code(&self) -> RawErrno;
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index 1d86bf9..5155c0d 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -1,10 +1,55 @@
 
 #![cfg_attr(debug_assertions, allow(dead_code))] 
 
+#[macro_use] extern crate tracing;
+
+#[allow(unused_imports)]
+use color_eyre::{
+    eyre::{
+	self,
+	eyre,
+	WrapErr,
+    },
+    SectionExt,
+    Help,
+};
+
 #[macro_use] mod ext; use ext::*;
 mod loli;
 
-fn main() { 
-    println!("Hello, world!");
+/// Initialise panic, trace and error handles.
+fn initialise() -> eyre::Result<()>
+{
+    fn install_tracing()
+    {
+	//! Install spantrace handling
+	
+	use tracing_error::ErrorLayer;
+	use tracing_subscriber::prelude::*;
+	use tracing_subscriber::{fmt, EnvFilter};
+
+	let fmt_layer = fmt::layer().with_target(false);
+	let filter_layer = EnvFilter::try_from_default_env()
+	    .or_else(|_| EnvFilter::try_new("info"))
+	    .unwrap();
+
+	tracing_subscriber::registry()
+	    .with(filter_layer)
+	    .with(fmt_layer)
+	    .with(ErrorLayer::default())
+	    .init();
+    }
+
+    install_tracing();
+    color_eyre::install()?;
+
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+#[instrument]
+fn main() -> eyre::Result<()> {
+    initialise()?;
+    
+    Ok(())
 }