[Nix-dev] staging --> master merge imminent

[James Cook]

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/6028#issuecomment-72952987

The error is caused by an impurity, so bisecting might just reveal which
version you had in the store before you switched to a newer kernel.

On 13 February 2015 at 14:12, Lluís Batlle i Rossell <viric at viric.name>
wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 11:07:27PM +0100, Bjørn Forsman wrote:
> > On 13 February 2015 at 22:20, Lluís Batlle i Rossell <viric at viric.name>
> wrote:
> > > Thank you! Is the plan for failing libsigsegv to wait for
> > > kernel.org fixes?
> >
> > What's the connection between libsigsegv and kernel.org? I noticed
> > libsigsegv test failures the other day (I was playing with armv7
> > bootstrap), and I bisected the error to this commit:
> >
> > 88fd7f452703f3280a3747e97b938c8e50ae962c (Re-Revert merge #5505:
> > util-linux: use /run/current-system/sw/bin/*)
> >
> > I was planning to make a gihub issue or post on nix-dev ML, but didn't
> > get to it before now :-)
>
> I think that linus changed the signal of stack overflow from SIGSEGV to
> SIGBUS.
> At some point, people realized it was a bad idea, and they took the change
> back
> in recent kernels.
>
> But if you bisected it... no idea. :) That change you found is quite weird.
> _______________________________________________
> nix-dev mailing list
> nix-dev at lists.science.uu.nl
> http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.science.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/attachments/20150213/9187d008/attachment.html