Additional error reporting in simple-xinit

2 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/test/bigreq/request-length.c b/test/bigreq/request-length.c
index 8174813ae..d9938f709 100644
--- a/test/bigreq/request-length.c
+++ b/test/bigreq/request-length.c
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 
 #include <unistd.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
 #include <poll.h>
 #include <xcb/xcb.h>
 #include <xcb/bigreq.h>
@@ -31,6 +32,13 @@
 int main(int argc, char **argv)
 {
     xcb_connection_t *c = xcb_connect(NULL, NULL);
+
+    int e = xcb_connection_has_error(c);
+    if (e) {
+        fprintf(stderr, "connection has error %d\n", e);
+        return e;
+    }
+
     int fd = xcb_get_file_descriptor(c);
 
     struct {
diff --git a/test/simple-xinit.c b/test/simple-xinit.c
index 26ff12bf7..66c9a44b3 100644
--- a/test/simple-xinit.c
+++ b/test/simple-xinit.c
@@ -133,8 +133,10 @@ start_client(char *const *client_args, int display)
             return 1;
         }
 
-        if (!WIFEXITED(wstatus))
+        if (!WIFEXITED(wstatus)) {
+            fprintf(stderr, "Client stopped or terminated by signal %d\n", WTERMSIG(wstatus));
             return 1;
+        }
 
         return WEXITSTATUS(wstatus);
     } else {