938163 - constant failure messages from newtab/head.js during tests with Xvfb

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Nathan Froyd [:froydnj]]

Attachment: example log from a single test

Setup:

Xvfb :1 -screen 0 1280x1024x24
DISPLAY=:1.0 openbox &

Run:

DISPLAY=:1.0 mach mochitest-browser

Expected:

A log of passes and failures with minimal noise.

Actual:

A log of passes and failures with a ton of messages about JavaScript failures in chrome://mochitests/content/browser/browser/base/content/test/newtab/head.js.  I've attached a log for a single test showing examples.

It's possible this is just due to running openbox and a different WM would be better...

They start after browser_newtab_bug735987.js, which times out, if it makes any difference.  Maybe the same cause of the timeout as bug 898317?

Comment 1

[Mihai Sucan [:msucan]]

Nathan, try metacity instead of openbox. I use metacity and it seems to work for me.

I also had similar problems - which forced me to abandon xvfb many months ago. This week I started to use Xephyr together with metacity, instead of xvfb, and it seems to work better. I had no issues.

Comment 2

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

Code was removed in bug 1433133 https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/fc80dd3e4fae