Bug#897236: yorick: flaky autopkgtest: ERROR (txtest) failed to open X display or create X window

Paul Gevers elbrus at debian.org
Sun May 10 20:02:47 BST 2020


Control: severity -1 serious

Hi,

On Mon, 30 Apr 2018 18:05:47 +0200 Paul Gevers <elbrus at debian.org> wrote:
> While inspecting regressions in autopkgtest resultsĀ¹, I noticed that
> your package yorick fails regularly, without obvious changes. At times
> when these tests fail, the error the follow:
> 
> ERROR (txtest) failed to open X display or create X window
>   LINE: 547  FILE: /usr/lib/yorick/i/testg.i
> 
> Could you please investigate and make your autopkgtest more robust?
> Please contact me if you need help and you think I can provide that (I
> am not subscribed to this bug).

Nowadays, these flaky bugs qualify as serious. Please, if you don't
improve the test then at least add the "flaky" restriction.

Paul

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