Mir

[regression] Fatal DRM errors from a compositing thread have no usable stack trace

Bug #1316867 reported by Daniel van Vugt
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Mir
Won't Fix
High
Unassigned
0.4
Won't Fix
High
Unassigned
0.5
Won't Fix
High
Unassigned

Bug Description

Fatal DRM errors from a compositing thread have no usable stack trace. This is a regression of bug 1237332 caused by this landing:
    https://code.launchpad.net/~afrantzis/mir/fix-1189770/+merge/217652

An example of the problem is seen in bug 1294510 where the available stack traces are completely useless.

Tags: regression

Related branches

summary: - [regression] Fatal exceptions raised in a compositing thread have no
- usable stack trace
+ [regression] Fatal DRM errors from a compositing thread have no usable
+ stack trace
description: updated
tags: added: regression
Changed in mir:
status: Triaged → In Progress
description: updated
Changed in mir:
milestone: 0.2.0 → 0.3.0
Changed in mir:
milestone: 0.3.0 → 0.4.0
Changed in mir:
milestone: 0.4.0 → 0.5.0
tags: added: rtm14
Changed in mir:
milestone: 0.5.0 → 0.6.0
tags: removed: rtm14
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

The team has voted that exceptions are preferred over the ability to debug crash reports, so this bug is not getting fixed any time soon. Maybe we can find middle ground in future.

Changed in mir:
status: In Progress → Triaged
milestone: 0.6.0 → none
assignee: Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) → nobody
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Argh, this is annoying. No stack traces from fatal errors any more.

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Alan Griffiths (alan-griffiths) wrote :

Have you tried running with --on-fatal-error-abort?

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Don't care for now...

Although isn't that the default option? If not then it should be. Otherwise crash reports from real users will be unreadable.

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Alan Griffiths (alan-griffiths) wrote :

As discussed at length over a year ago Mir is a library and, as such, should not impose that decision all applications using it. The default is to report the failure using an exception (as per comment #1).

For downstream servers we recommended that to get good crash information they consider selecting the "abort" behaviour.

Changed in mir:
status: Triaged → Won't Fix
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