[Pkg-privacy-maintainers] Bug#909275: Bug#909275: xorg-server breaks onioncircuits autopkgtest: expected string, NoneType found

[Sascha Steinbiss]

Hi Paul,

Thanks for reporting this.

> I copied some of the output at the bottom of this report. Based on
> reading the xorg-server changelog, I suspect these tests are trying to
> activate something on screen and now they are missing the active area:
>  * xvfb-run*: Update default resolution and bitdepth to match upstream
>    defaults.

I took a look at the affected code part and it deals with obtaining Tor circuit information from the local Tor daemon via the STEM library, to later compare the ones listed in the UI against them. It looks like the test machine was unable to build circuits at some point in time, and, as a consequence, the tests failed with the specified error.
I do not see an obvious direct connection with Xorg, and a more recent test run from this morning indeed shows that the test succeeds again [1].

> Currently this regression is contributing to the delay of the migration
> of xorg-server to testing [1]. Due to the nature of this issue, I filed
> this bug report against both packages. Can you please investigate the
> situation and reassign the bug to the right package? If needed, please
> change the bug's severity.

I would be tempted to close the bug and maybe adapt the error message given in the test. Any arguments against that?

Best regards
Sascha

[1] https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/testing/amd64/o/onioncircuits/1024612/log.gz

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