Thanks for your suggestion. This simply works. I thought at first I don't need that solution, since it's meant for headless servers.
Am Freitag, 28. Dezember 2012 22:31:10 UTC+1 schrieb Mark Waite: > > Wouldn't it be easier to install a VNC server on your Ubuntu and use the > Jenkins VNC plugin to manage an X server for use by your build? I use that > regularly and it works very well for me on Debian and Red Hat and CentOS > machines. > > Then you don't need to remember to keep the X server running and you don't > need to remember to unlock its permissions. > > Mark Waite > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Pawel Jasinski <pawel.j...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > *To:* jenkins...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> > *Sent:* Friday, December 28, 2012 11:50 AM > *Subject:* Re: Jenkins cannot connect to X server on Ubuntu > > there is one thing I forgot. You have to issue the following in the > terminal connected to XServer > > xhost localhost > > this will allow the connections to XServer from localhost only. > For troubleshooting (not to be permanent) you can do: > > xhost + > > this turns off any restrictions. > If you still have a problem, check if port 6000 is open: > > netstat -nal | grep 6000 > > if not, very likely you have to go double check the original instructions. > > > --pawel > > > > On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 6:15 PM, <suter_...@hotmail.com <javascript:>>wrote: > > Hi Pawel, > > Thanks for your suggestion but I still got the same problem (after I > enabled tcp connections). I don't know how to debug this problem. > > cheers > > Am Freitag, 28. Dezember 2012 17:11:00 UTC+1 schrieb Pawel Jasinski: > > hi, > > can it be that you need to enable tcp connection to your xserver? > http://askubuntu.com/questions/72812/how-to-disable-nolisten > > cheers, > pawel > > > On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 3:31 PM, <suter_...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > My tests on jenkins are failing because jenkins can't connect to the x > server on my ubuntu machine. The machine disposes of a display, so it's not > headless. > > I tried to set the connection settings on the etc/init.d/jenkins > configuration as follows: > > #Display connection > export DISPLAY=:0.0 > > > In my pom.xml: > > <plugin> > <groupId>org.apache.maven.**plugins</groupId> > <artifactId>maven-surefire-**plugin</artifactId> > <version>2.5</version> > <configuration> > <systemPropertyVariables> > <java.awt.headless>false</**java.awt.headless> > </systemPropertyVariables> > </configuration> > </plugin> > > > The error message is the following: > > Can't connect to X11 window server using ':0.0' as the value of the > DISPLAY variable. > > > I tried to launch a x server from the console using startx but it says > it's already running. So this does not seem to be the problem. > > > > > >
