Re: use of xvfb-run in pbuilder builds

[Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>]

Hi,

> I am trying to use xvfb-run to permit pbuilder to build some packages 
> which need to connect to X.  In both cases, if I do a local build with 
> dpkg-buildpackages, the connection to the xvfb server works fine, however 
> it fails in pbuilder.  In one case, it is a perl-tk module which tries to 
> open a window to run tests:
> 
> xvfb-run /usr/bin/make test
> ...
> "couldn't connect to display \":99\"
> 
> In the second case, it is a python package which successfully connects to 
> X initially but then there is a failure.  I know this because if I don't 
> try to use xvfb-run, the failure occurs _before_ any compilation happens.
> 
> xvfb-run python2.3 ./setup.py build
> ...
>  	lots of compilation ensues 
> ...
> /usr/bin/xvfb-run: line 158: kill: (23268) - No such process
> 
> Are there any suggestions or can anyone point me to a package that 
> successfully uses xvfb under pbuilder?

In theory, it should work, though I have not really tried recently.

Does your chroot have /tmp/.X11-unix ?


regards,
	junichi
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