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

[gregor herrmann]

tag 573679 - unreproducible
thanks

On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:16:36 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:

> > $ (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?

Ah, that explains why I couldn#t reproduce the bug.
Thanks for the analysis!
 
> That's possible, yes. I run 10 builds at the same time on the same
> machine.

Cool.
So adding -a [0] has a good chance of avoiding this problem, I guess.

Cheers,
gregor

[0] to this and all other packages that use xvfb-run 
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