kextload status 71

Hi all,


Does anyone know what exit status 71 means from `kextload`?


macOS 10.13.4 (17E199); Developer-ID-signed kext; problem not reproducible by me (reported by customer)


Thanks!

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kextload
can return a variety of interesting status codes. In this case I believe that 71 is
EX_OSERR
from
<sysexits.h>
. I did a quick search of the kext_tools project in Darwin and that status code is use in a lot of different places, making it hard to see which one might apply in your specific case.

Many of those uses have associated logging, so you might be able to make progress by asking this user for a sysdiagnose log (per the instructions on our Bug Reporting > Profiles and Logs page).

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