Re: Running tests with xvfb

2017-08-02 Thread Jeff
On 29/07/17 12:05, Christian Seiler wrote: > Is that actually true? Because xvfb should not interact with any > regular X sesssion that is running. Now you are right. I can't reproduce the problem any more. > What is the value of the DISPLAY environment variable the program > is trying to use?

Re: Running tests with xvfb

2017-07-31 Thread Ian Jackson
Jeff writes ("Running tests with xvfb"): > I have a package whose tests crash X on my machine, which uses nouveau. > This makes testing rather inconvenient. > > Running the tests in a chroot with xvfb works, but takes an age (i.e. a > couple of minutes) to set up

Re: Running tests with xvfb

2017-07-29 Thread Julien Cristau
On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 22:46:57 +0200, Jeff wrote: > Running the test outside the chroot with xvfb still crashes X, because > xvfb seems to grab the "real" X if it is there. > > Is there a way of getting xvfb to ignore the system X? > Xvfb doesn't do anything with your regular X server so that

Re: Running tests with xvfb

2017-07-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 5:45 AM, Jeff wrote: > I did that six months ago: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=857620 Looks like that received no responses, you might want to re-test with the latest Xorg in sid/experimental and forward the results to nouveau upstream. -- bye,

Re: Running tests with xvfb

2017-07-29 Thread Christian Seiler
Hi, On 07/28/2017 10:46 PM, Jeff wrote: > I have a package whose tests crash X on my machine, which uses nouveau. > This makes testing rather inconvenient. > > Running the tests in a chroot with xvfb works, but takes an age (i.e. a > couple of minutes) to set up the chroot. This is also not

Re: Running tests with xvfb

2017-07-29 Thread Jeff
On 28/07/17 23:19, Eric Cooper wrote: > Can you use an xorg.conf with the "dummy" driver instead of xvfb? > I use a "with-dummy-xserver" wrapper script for situations like that. Can I do this in parallel with my standard display driver, so that the dummy is only used when I call it from the

Re: Running tests with xvfb

2017-07-29 Thread Jeff
On 29/07/17 03:31, Paul Wise wrote: > This sounds like an Xorg/nouveau bug, please do report it: > > http://x.debian.net/howto/report-bugs.html I did that six months ago: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=857620 Regards Jeff signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: Running tests with xvfb

2017-07-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 4:46 PM, Jeff wrote: > I have a package whose tests crash X on my machine, which uses nouveau. This sounds like an Xorg/nouveau bug, please do report it: http://x.debian.net/howto/report-bugs.html -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Re: Running tests with xvfb

2017-07-28 Thread Eric Cooper
On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 10:46:57PM +0200, Jeff wrote: > I have a package whose tests crash X on my machine, which uses nouveau. > This makes testing rather inconvenient. > > Running the tests in a chroot with xvfb works, but takes an age (i.e. a > couple of minutes) to set up the chroot. This is

Running tests with xvfb

2017-07-28 Thread Jeff
Hallo all, I have a package whose tests crash X on my machine, which uses nouveau. This makes testing rather inconvenient. Running the tests in a chroot with xvfb works, but takes an age (i.e. a couple of minutes) to set up the chroot. This is also not conducive to rapid testing of small