[issue35240] Travis CI: xvfb-run: error: Xvfb failed to start

STINNER Victor added the comment: I created a new job to no longer run xvfb-run twice. Let's see if it works around the issue. At least, it should make Travis CI a little bit faster. -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed _

[issue35240] Travis CI: xvfb-run: error: Xvfb failed to start

STINNER Victor added the comment: New changeset a22df4896f6b83c8741203118790ae281716bca5 by Victor Stinner in branch 'master': bpo-35240: Add "doctest" job to Travis CI (GH-10753) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/a22df4896f6b83c8741203118790ae281716bca5 -- _

[issue35240] Travis CI: xvfb-run: error: Xvfb failed to start

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[issue35240] Travis CI: xvfb-run: error: Xvfb failed to start

STINNER Victor added the comment: "make doctest" has been added by commit 859c068e52a31e13e2b9bb6a3f861fa8c290cb0e of bpo-34962. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue35240] Travis CI: xvfb-run: error: Xvfb failed to start

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[issue35240] Travis CI: xvfb-run: error: Xvfb failed to start

STINNER Victor added the comment: Same error: https://travis-ci.org/python/cpython/jobs/459983088 -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Pyt

[issue35240] Travis CI: xvfb-run: error: Xvfb failed to start

Karthikeyan Singaravelan added the comment: Found a relevant issue but 3 years old : https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-ci/issues/4387#issuecomment-125635027 Doc PR : https://github.com/travis-ci/docs-travis-ci-com/pull/311 . The docs recommend usage of -a to select a free port. --

[issue35240] Travis CI: xvfb-run: error: Xvfb failed to start

Pablo Galindo Salgado added the comment: xvfb is a utility that allows you to run a command in a virtual X server environment. I assume that is needed for the doctests that use the X server. I assume is related to PR9806 -- ___ Python tracker

[issue35240] Travis CI: xvfb-run: error: Xvfb failed to start

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[issue35240] Travis CI: xvfb-run: error: Xvfb failed to start

STINNER Victor added the comment: Extract of .travis.yml: $XVFB_RUN make buildbottest TESTOPTS="-j4 -uall,-cpu" if [[ "$TRAVIS_OS_NAME" == "linux" ]]; then $XVFB_RUN make PYTHON=../python SPHINXOPTS="-q -W -j4" -C Doc/ venv doctest fi I'm not sure what is xvfb, nor why it's

[issue35240] Travis CI: xvfb-run: error: Xvfb failed to start

New submission from STINNER Victor : Travis CI fails randomly with "xvfb-run: error: Xvfb failed to start". Example: https://travis-ci.org/python/cpython/jobs/454776965 whereas the full test suite succeeded. -- messages: 329881 nosy: vstinner priority: normal severity: normal status: o