Thanks Mark, This Jenkins installation is a straight-up copy of the current production one that does not have any such plugin, and where this very test runs OK, as I'm told.
Yes I know 1.609 is very old, but it's the Dev team that has to make the decision to upgrade. On Friday, July 9, 2021 at 6:00:30 PM UTC+3 Mark Waite wrote: > There are Jenkins plugins (like the xvnc plugin, xvfb plugin) that will > allow a job to request a virtual frame buffer to be used during tests that > require a display. That message may indicate that the plugin is not > installed or is not working as expected. > > Jenkins 1.609 is many, many years out of date. You should plan an update > to a current version to resolve known security issues, have access to new > features, and have a better chance of answers from the Jenkins community > > On Fri, Jul 9, 2021 at 8:19 AM GI D <[email protected]> wrote: > >> My Devs are complaining that, on a fresh installation of Jenkins 1.609, >> there is a build-test that apparently tries to load some data using Excel, >> and it fails with: >> >> *Can't connect to X11 window server using 'localhost:11.0' as the value >> of the DISPLAY variable.* >> >> I wonder how Jenkins, as it runs inside Tomcat, can even know where (what >> client system) to try to open a windowing application on. >> >> In any case, does anyone have a clue as to how to resolve this? >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> George >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Jenkins Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/66385f2f-d2ad-4443-995b-9e5f285b1a43n%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/66385f2f-d2ad-4443-995b-9e5f285b1a43n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/e5c89fbc-f630-4a44-bacb-7067f098ef9cn%40googlegroups.com.
