[OpenIndiana-discuss] NVIDIA again

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Tue Sep 13 23:33:25 UTC 2016


On 09/13/16 03:38 PM, Lionel Cons wrote:
> 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?

Sorry, I don't understand what you're asking for.

	-alan-



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