Problems running xvfb on my Linux desktop

[Carlos Knippschild]

If you don't use Linux or doesn't know anything about xvfb you can ignore this message.

I used to be able to use xvfb to more comfortably run Chromium tests mainly to avoid the poping of Chrome windows. But recently I've been getting this error every time I try to:

Failed to start Xvfb or Openbox: [Errno 13] Permission denied

I tried to do some research on this issue but my Google-fu has been insufficient. Is anyone suffering from this too? Or even better, knows what's going on?

Thanks,

Carlos.

[Tom Anderson]

The arguments to xvfb.py changed at some point.  You can now just do eg. "xvfb.py out/Release/browser_tests --gtest_filter=abc.xyz"

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[Carlos Knippschild]

Thanks Tom, that did the trick.

I'll upload a simple CL to make xvfb.py complain if one tries to pass in a command that points to a directory (backwards incompatible but at least aware).

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[Primiano Tucci]

I have no idea what xvfb.py is, but I used xvfb-run (Afaik you are not supposed to start a xvfb server yourself but use the -run wrapper ) last week on goobuntu 14.04 and it just worked.

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[Carlos Knippschild]

(I meant to sent this a while ago but forgot to hit the button)

xvfb.py is a helper to xvfb-run that already configures it to appropriately run chrome (i.e. sets the correct virtual screen size).