xvfb fails to start, missing dependencies on xauth and x11-xkb-utils

Bug #500102 reported by Matthias Klose
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Bug Description

this breaks several builds using xvfb running testsuites

$ xvfb-run -a -e xvfb-run.log true
$ cat xvfb-run.log

record: RECORD extension enabled at configure time.
record: This extension is known to be broken, disabling extension now..
record: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20500
[ 0.000000] (EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so failed (/usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
[ 0.000169] (EE) GLX: could not load software renderer
[dix] Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc, removing from list!
[dix] Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic, removing from list!
[dix] Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled, removing from list!
[dix] Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled, removing from list!
[dix] Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1, removing from list!
[dix] Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi, removing from list!
[dix] Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi, removing from list!
[dix] Could not init font path element /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType, removing from list!
sh: /usr/bin/xkbcomp: not found
[ 0.072281] (EE) Error compiling keymap (-)
[ 0.072430] (EE) XKB: Couldn't compile keymap
XKB: Failed to compile keymap
Keyboard initialization failed. This could be a missing or incorrect setup of xkeyboard-config.

Fatal server error:
Failed to activate core devices.

Backtrace:
0: Xvfb (xorg_backtrace+0x18) [0xf7969]
1: Xvfb (xorg_backtrace+0xfff086ba) [0xb]
Segmentation fault at address (nil)

Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting

Tags: armel
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package xorg-server - 2:1.7.3.901-1ubuntu4

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xorg-server (2:1.7.3.901-1ubuntu4) lucid; urgency=low

  * xvfb: Depend again on xauth. Depend on x11-xkb-utils. LP: #500102.
 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Thu, 24 Dec 2009 12:20:02 +0100

Changed in xorg-server (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :

It was unnecessary to move xauth to Depends, since it wasn't there in jaunty or karmic either (despite the changelog claiming so). And you didn't mention adding libgl1-mesa-dri to Recommends. GLX errors aren't fatal, so they should not make the build fail.

Changed in xorg-server (Debian):
status: Unknown → Fix Released
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