diff --git a/src/include/deepstate/DeepState.h b/src/include/deepstate/DeepState.h
index 2dc7199e..b1cb341f 100644
--- a/src/include/deepstate/DeepState.h
+++ b/src/include/deepstate/DeepState.h
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 #include <unistd.h>
 #include <fnmatch.h>
 #include <execinfo.h>
-#include <dlfcn.h>
+#include <ucontext.h>
 
 #include <deepstate/Log.h>
 #include <deepstate/Compiler.h>
@@ -529,23 +529,24 @@ extern void DeepState_SaveFailingTest(void);
 extern void DeepState_SaveCrashingTest(void);
 
 /* Emit test function backtrace after test crashes. */
-static void DeepState_EmitBacktrace(int signum, siginfo_t *sig, void *context) {
+static void DeepState_EmitBacktrace(int signum, siginfo_t *sig, void *_context) {
 
+  /* output information about the signal caught and the exception that occurred */
   const char *result;
   if (!sig->si_status)
     result = sys_siglist[signum];
   else
     result = sys_siglist[sig->si_status];
+  DeepState_LogFormat(DeepState_LogError, "Signal caught in test: %s (%d)", result, sig->si_signo);
 
-  DeepState_LogFormat(DeepState_LogInfo, "Test crashed with: %s", result);
-
-  // TODO: add line number of crash (ie. addr2line)
+  ucontext_t *context = (ucontext_t *) _context;
+  //printf("%lx", context->uc_mcontext.gregs[REG_EIP]);
 
+  /* return a backtrace */
+  size_t size;
   void *back_addrs[DEEPSTATE_CRASH_MAX_FRAMES];
   char **symbols;
 
-  size_t size;
-
   size = backtrace(back_addrs, DEEPSTATE_CRASH_MAX_FRAMES);
   if (size == 0)
     DeepState_Abandon("Cannot retrieve backtrace stack addresses");
@@ -554,8 +555,6 @@ static void DeepState_EmitBacktrace(int signum, siginfo_t *sig, void *context) {
   if (symbols == NULL)
     DeepState_Abandon("Cannot retrieve symbols for stack addresses");
 
-  // TODO: demangle and resolve, also do for Darwin/BSD
-
   DeepState_LogFormat(DeepState_LogTrace, "======= Backtrace: =========");
   for (size_t i = 0; i < size; i++)
      DeepState_LogFormat(DeepState_LogTrace, "%s", symbols[i]);
@@ -740,12 +739,11 @@ DeepState_ForkAndRunTest(struct DeepState_TestInfo *test) {
 
     /* If flag is set, install a signal handler for SIGCHLD */
     if (FLAGS_verbose_crash_trace) {
-      struct sigaction sigact, oldact;
-
-      sigact.sa_flags = SA_SIGINFO | SA_NOCLDWAIT;
+      struct sigaction sigact;
+      sigact.sa_flags = SA_SIGINFO | SA_NODEFER;
       sigact.sa_sigaction = DeepState_EmitBacktrace;
 
-      sigaction(SIGCHLD, &sigact, &oldact);
+      sigaction(SIGCHLD, &sigact, 0);
     }
 
     test_pid = fork();
@@ -759,18 +757,7 @@ DeepState_ForkAndRunTest(struct DeepState_TestInfo *test) {
     waitpid(test_pid, &wstatus, 0);
   } else {
 
-    /* If flag is set, install a signal handler for any arbitrary crash*/
-    if (FLAGS_verbose_crash_trace) {
-
-      struct sigaction sigact, oldact;
-
-      sigact.sa_flags = SA_SIGINFO | SA_NODEFER;
-      sigact.sa_sigaction = DeepState_EmitBacktrace;
-
-      sigaction(SIGBUS, &sigact, &oldact);
-      sigaction(SIGSEGV, &sigact, &oldact);
-    }
-
+    /* TODO: install multiplexer signal handler, since we need to handle more than SIGCHLD */
     wstatus = DeepState_RunTestNoFork(test);
     DeepState_CleanUp();
   }
diff --git a/src/lib/DeepState.c b/src/lib/DeepState.c
index 64ecc141..fa553b68 100644
--- a/src/lib/DeepState.c
+++ b/src/lib/DeepState.c
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@
  * limitations under the License.
  */
 
+#define __USE_GNU
+
 #include "deepstate/DeepState.h"
 #include "deepstate/Option.h"
 #include "deepstate/Log.h"
@@ -44,7 +46,7 @@ DEFINE_bool(exit_on_fail, ExecutionGroup, false, "Exit with status 255 on test f
 DEFINE_int(min_log_level, ExecutionGroup, 0, "Minimum level of logging to output (default 2, 0=debug, 1=trace, 2=info, ...).");
 DEFINE_int(timeout, ExecutionGroup, 120, "Timeout for brute force fuzzing.");
 DEFINE_bool(verbose_reads, ExecutionGroup, false, "Report on bytes being read during execution of test.");
-DEFINE_bool(verbose_crash_trace, ExecutionGroup, false, "If test crashes, report an execution backtrace after abrupt exit.");
+DEFINE_bool(verbose_crash_trace, ExecutionGroup, false, "If test crashes on a fork, report an execution backtrace after abrupt exit.");
 
 /* Fuzzing and symex related options, baked in to perform analysis-related tasks without auxiliary tools */
 DEFINE_bool(fuzz, AnalysisGroup, false, "Perform brute force unguided fuzzing.");