Bug#573679: libwx-perl: FTBFS: xvfb-run: error: Xvfb failed to start

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 14/03/10 at 12:46 +0100, Jozef Kutej wrote:
> gregor herrmann wrote:
> > Builds fine for me in two sid cowbuilder chroots (amd64 + i386), one
> > with X and everything, the other a server without X.
> 
> http://perldition.org/articles/Running%20tests%20that%20require%20an%20X%20server.pod
> 
> Ralf recommends "xvfb-run -a make test"
> 
> -a, --auto-servernum => Try to get a free server number, starting at 99,
> or the argument to --server-num.
> 
> $ (xvfb-run sleep 10000 &) && xvfb-run sleep 10000
> xvfb-run: error: Xvfb failed to start
> 
> (xvfb-run -a sleep 10000 &) && xvfb-run -a sleep 10000
> # will sleep well ;-)
> 
> so probably what cause the bug report were two builds using xvfb-run at
> the same time?

That's possible, yes. I run 10 builds at the same time on the same
machine.
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