[OpenIndiana-discuss] NVIDIA again

[Lionel Cons]

On 14 September 2016 at 00:34, Alan Coopersmith
<alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:
> 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-

Mind fixing the patch and print the siginfo information to the error
message to have more diagnostics?

Lionel