Re: building python-opengl packages (xvfb-run)
On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 08:54:35AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> Trying to prepare a python-opgengl NMU, I get the following error when
> running with sudo or fakeroot. Any hint how to avoid this?
> xvfb-run python setup.py install \
> --prefix /build/packages/nmu/python/python-opengl-1.5.7/debian/python-opengl/usr
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "setup.py", line 28, in ?
> import togl_setup
> File "togl_setup.py", line 16, in ?
> tk = Tkinter.Tk()
> File "/usr/lib/python2.2/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1538, in __init__
> self.tk = _tkinter.create(screenName, baseName, className)
> _tkinter.TclError: this isn't a Tk applicationcouldn't connect to display ":99"
> /usr/bin/xvfb-run: line 120: kill: (27657) - No such process
> make: *** [install] Error 1
It looks like xvfb-run fails to start the Xvfb background process properly.
You can run xvfb-run with '-e errfile' to get the output of Xvfb. Xvfb and
xvfb-run come with the 'xvfb' package, by the way, which is version 4.2.1-6
here (up to date unstable), and all seems to work fine.
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