Re: New version of mayavi2 fails to build

[Scott Talbert <swt@techie.net>]

On Thu, 17 Feb 2022, Andreas Tille wrote:

> Hi,
>
> as you can see in Salsa-CI build log[1] the new version of mayavi2 fails
> with something like:
>
> ...
> File "/builds/python-team/packages/mayavi2/debian/output/source_dir/mayavi/mlab.py", line 16 in <module>
>  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 228 in _call_with_frames_removed
>  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 850 in exec_module
>  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 680 in _load_unlocked
>  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 986 in _find_and_load_unlocked
>  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1007 in _find_and_load
>  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 228 in _call_with_frames_removed
>  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1058 in _handle_fromlist
>  File "/builds/python-team/packages/mayavi2/debian/output/source_dir/setup.py", line 138 in mlab_reference
>  File "/builds/python-team/packages/mayavi2/debian/output/source_dir/setup.py", line 176 in run
>  ...
> Aborted (core dumped)
> E: pybuild pybuild:367: build: plugin distutils failed with: exit code=134: /usr/bin/python3 setup.py build
>
> Any idea what might be wrong here?

Looking at the full log, it appears as if something in the build process 
is trying to open an X display and fails.  Perhaps try running 
dh_auto_build with Xvfb?

Scott