Re: Failing autopkgtest because of X server

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

On 2019-07-17 19:06 +0200, François Mazen wrote:

> Dear mentors,
>
> I'm trying to add auto-pkg-tests to the flightcrew package with CI on
> Salsa repo.
>
> When I launch the flightcrew-gui binary via autopkgtest, I got the
> following error on Salsa CI [1]:
>
> "flightcrew-gui: cannot connect to X server"
>
> I suppose the Salsa CI server is headless, but adding xvfb and xauth as
> dependency [2] does not change the error.
>
> Could you please help?

I haven't looked at the tests in detail, but you need to run GUI
programs under xvfb-run(1).

Cheers,
       Sven