Re: use of xvfb-run in pbuilder builds
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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