[OpenIndiana-discuss] NVIDIA again

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Tue Sep 13 22:34:21 UTC 2016


On 08/17/16 11:57 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Note that on Solarish OS'es, the backtrace will sometimes warn you about the
> last linker lookup failure, even when it's not relevant - it could be the
> driver looked for that symbol, didn't find it because your Xorg is an older
> release, and went on about it's business only to crash later.
>
> (I think, but have not had time to confirm that this is because the code I
>  stuck in osinit.c years ago to catch actual errors here fails to check in
>  the signal handler what signal was received so prints it for every signal:
> https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit?id=98f4179156391752e6688339487458ad7828abf4
>
>  If correct, the fix would be to wrap the first chunk of that in
>  OsSigHandler inside an "if (signo == SIGQUIT)" block.)

Confirmed and fixed upstream since I finally got tired of explaining my bug to
everyone:

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=75c1d04650f63464263c159d2e95364482be724f

	-alan-



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