Better handle silent errors #1280

Job	Run time
OS=macOS-latest R=release py=3.10	3m 26s
OS=windows-latest R=release py=3.10	8m 56s
OS=ubuntu-latest R=release py=3.10	4m 19s
OS=macOS-latest R=oldrel py=3.10	3m 48s
OS=ubuntu-latest R=oldrel-1 py=3.9	4m 21s
OS=ubuntu-latest R=oldrel-2 py=3.9	4m 33s
OS=ubuntu-20.04 R=oldrel-3 py=3.8	4m 39s
OS=ubuntu-20.04 R=oldrel-4 py=3.8	4m 48s
OS=ubuntu-latest R=release py=3.7	5m 47s
OS=ubuntu-latest R=release py=3.8	4m 37s
OS=ubuntu-latest R=release py=3.9	4m 8s
OS=ubuntu-latest R=release py=3.11	4m 33s
OS=ubuntu-latest R=release py=3.12	4m 22s
OS=ubuntu-latest R=devel py=3.12	4m 40s
	1h 6m 57s

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