On Sat, Jun 28, 2025 at 01:53:44PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> Please don't treat this as precedent for "remove dbus-run-session from the
> command-line" being a good first thing to try whenever there is a build or
> build-time-test failure. If a test suite or a piece of build-time batch
> processing is wrapped in dbus-run-session, it's usually there for a reason.
Ok. I take note.
> If my theory about this particular FTBFS is correct, removing the use of
> dbus-run-session results in the build using D-Bus X11 autolaunching
> (dbus-launch, dbus-x11) instead, which works around the test failure via an
> internal implementation detail of dbus-launch (the fact that it's an X11
> client); and if that theory is correct, `xeyes &` would have been an almost
> equivalent workaround (I say "almost" because it would have a race
> condition), but the real solution would be to use
> `xvfb-run -s "-noreset"` to suppress the X server's unwanted "reset"
> behaviour.
I confirm that by adding those options to the xvfb-run call in
dh_auto_test (as in the attached patch), the problem disappears completely
(tested 50 times on machines with 1 cpu and 50 times on machines with 2 cpus).
Question for Boyuan: Since you did the last upload, would you please
consider making another team upload to fix this? (This is a very
targeted fix, so I think it should be ok).
Thanks.
diff -Nru ibus-1.5.32/debian/changelog ibus-1.5.32/debian/changelog
--- ibus-1.5.32/debian/changelog 2025-04-11 02:22:56.000000000 +0200
+++ ibus-1.5.32/debian/changelog 2025-07-01 00:30:00.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+ibus (1.5.32-2) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+ * Team upload.
+ * Run xvfb-run with -s "-noreset". Closes: #1108040.
+
+ -- Boyuan Yang <by...@debian.org> Tue, 01 Jul 2025 00:30:00 +0200
+
ibus (1.5.32-1) unstable; urgency=medium
* Team upload.
diff -Nru ibus-1.5.32/debian/rules ibus-1.5.32/debian/rules
--- ibus-1.5.32/debian/rules 2025-03-20 23:24:46.000000000 +0100
+++ ibus-1.5.32/debian/rules 2025-07-01 00:30:00.000000000 +0200
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@
env \
GVFS_DISABLE_FUSE=1 \
dbus-run-session -- \
- xvfb-run --auto-servernum -- \
+ xvfb-run -s "-noreset" --auto-servernum -- \
dh_auto_test -- \
HOME=$(CURDIR)/debian/tmp-home \
XDG_CACHE_HOME= \
