diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 3269e90f2..23e1979c4 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -81,8 +81,8 @@ plotRuntimeDependencies/
 .Rproj.user
 runtime.rds
 
-# main renv.lock should only be commited for releases
 /.Rbuildignore
+renv.lock
 
 # ignore RStudio project files
 /*.Rproj
diff --git a/renv/activate.R b/renv/activate.R
index dcef95c4d..3f52a662a 100644
--- a/renv/activate.R
+++ b/renv/activate.R
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 local({
 
   # the requested version of renv
-  version <- "1.2.4"
+  version <- "1.3.0"
   attr(version, "md5") <- NULL
   attr(version, "sha") <- NULL
 
@@ -716,6 +716,18 @@ local({
   # (512 byte) header.
   renv_bootstrap_git_extract_sha1_tar <- function(bundle) {
   
+    tryCatch(
+      renv_bootstrap_git_extract_sha1_tar_impl(bundle),
+      error = function(cnd) {
+        catf("- Failed to extract the Git SHA from '%s': %s", bundle, conditionMessage(cnd))
+        NULL
+      }
+    )
+  
+  }
+  
+  renv_bootstrap_git_extract_sha1_tar_impl <- function(bundle) {
+  
     # open the bundle for reading
     # We use gzcon for everything because (from ?gzcon)
     # > Reading from a connection which does not supply a 'gzip' magic
@@ -734,6 +746,7 @@ local({
     } else {
       NULL
     }
+  
   }
   
   renv_bootstrap_install <- function(version, tarball, library) {
diff --git a/scripts/start/submit.R b/scripts/start/submit.R
index cb0f1ee10..eb0dfd5a1 100644
--- a/scripts/start/submit.R
+++ b/scripts/start/submit.R
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ submit <- function(cfg, restart = FALSE, stopOnFolderCreateError = TRUE) {
                               " --mail-type=END,FAIL",
                               " --comment=REMIND",
                               # Prefix RSCRIPT_SLURM_HOOK for piam-apptainer integration (empty if unset)
-                              " --wrap=\"", trimws(paste(Sys.getenv("RSCRIPT_SLURM_HOOK", unset = ""), "Rscript")), " prepareAndRun.R \" ",
+                              " --wrap=\"set -e; ", trimws(paste(Sys.getenv("RSCRIPT_SLURM_HOOK", unset = ""), "Rscript")), " prepareAndRun.R \" ",
                               cfg$slurmConfig))
     Sys.sleep(1)
   }