RuntimeError: Caught an unknown exception! when starting creating a Logger object

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I'm very rarely getting the following error when creating a nqm.irimager.Logger Python object:

 ============================= test session starts ==============================
  platform linux -- Python 3.9.17, pytest-7.4.3, pluggy-1.3.0
  rootdir: /project
  configfile: pyproject.toml
  plugins: timeout-2.2.0
  timeout: 20.0s
  timeout method: signal
  timeout func_only: False
  collected 11 items
  
  ../../../project/tests/test_irimager.py .......                          [ 63%]
  ../../../project/tests/test_logger.py F..                                [ 90%]
  ../../../project/tests/test_version.py .                                 [100%]
  
  =================================== FAILURES ===================================
  ______________________________ test_logger_basic _______________________________
  
      def test_logger_basic():
          """Test whether the Logger object runs and exits"""
  >       logger = Logger()
  E       RuntimeError: Caught an unknown exception!
  
  /project/tests/test_logger.py:11: RuntimeError
  =========================== short test summary info ============================
  FAILED ../../../project/tests/test_logger.py::test_logger_basic - RuntimeErro...
  ======================== 1 failed, 10 passed in 10.26s =========================

I'm not 100% sure why. pybind11 would normally convert the error and give a nicer error message, but it seems like it can't for this one.

As an example, see:

• https://github.com/nqminds/nqm-irimager/actions/runs/6696090184/job/18193101555
• https://github.com/nqminds/nqm-irimager/actions/runs/6698826035/job/18201724428
• https://github.com/nqminds/nqm-irimager/actions/runs/6709925287/job/18234055880