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metacity sometimes makes SWTBot tests fail in Jenkins [message #1405974]

Fri, 08 August 2014 13:05

Eclipse User

Hi

in all my Jenkins job that use SWTBot I have a preliminary build step
executing

metacity --replace --sm-disable &

(The jobs also start Xvnc)

This is an old machine and so it's slow.

Sometimes, the log of the job shows something like

+ metacity --replace --sm-disable<main build steps>

or

+ metacity --replace<main build steps>

and NOT

+ metacity --replace --sm-disable
<main build steps>

Thus, it looks like metacity does not correctly start, and of course,
all SWTBot tests that require a Shell (e.g., accessing a menu) fail...

Has anyone experienced a similar behavior?
Or has anyone have suggestions to avoid such behavior?

thanks in advance
Lorenzo

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Re: metacity sometimes makes SWTBot tests fail in Jenkins [message #1409577 is a reply to message #1405974]

Mon, 18 August 2014 08:50

Eclipse User

Hi,

I think you can configure the .xsession of the Jenkins user to start a
window manager (can be metacity, or unity, or whatever known to work
well with SWT) as it starts a X server.
So just starting Xvnc would automatically start the window manager and
you can get rid of the step to start the window manager.

HTH
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Mickael Istria
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Re: metacity sometimes makes SWTBot tests fail in Jenkins [message #1411121 is a reply to message #1409577]

Fri, 22 August 2014 08:51

Eclipse User

On 18/08/2014 14:50, Mickael Istria wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think you can configure the .xsession of the Jenkins user to start a
> window manager (can be metacity, or unity, or whatever known to work
> well with SWT) as it starts a X server.
> So just starting Xvnc would automatically start the window manager and
> you can get rid of the step to start the window manager.
>
> HTH

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll investigate that and keep you posted.

cheers
LOrenzo

--
Lorenzo Bettini, PhD in Computer Science, DI, Univ. Torino
HOME: http://www.lorenzobettini.it
Xtext Book:
http://www.packtpub.com/implementing-domain-specific-languages-with-xtext-and-xtend/book

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