• Bug#1095028: trying to reproduce the problem

    From Larry Doolittle@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jun 10 07:30:01 2025
    Debian supporters -

    This bug sounds disturbing. I use xvfb-run "all the time"
    on Bookworm, and have never seen it act up.
    I agree with Simon, the symptoms sound like a race condition,
    even though the shell script and its concept seem sound,
    and have worked well for many years.

    Does anyone have any hints on how to reproduce this occasional failure-to-launch on a development machine?
    Using amd64 bookworm as a host, I just tried:
    fresh amd64 trixie install in a chroot
    install dependencies for rhythmbox
    as unprivileged user, apt-get source rhythmbox
    cd rhythmbox-3.4.8
    dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
    it worked (as in, .deb files cam out, and no xvfb fault).
    Not only that, but
    xvfb-run dh_auto_test -- --timeout-multiplier 3
    ran 20 times in a row without a failure.

    - Larry

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