use of xvfb-run in pbuilder builds

[Carlo Segre <segre@iit.edu>]

Hello All:

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?

Cheers,

Carlo


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