Hi Brad, sorry for only replying a year later...
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 11:15:25 -0400, Brad King wrote: > I run tests of a project that needs an X server on a nightly basis. For > years I've been running them off-screen using Xvfb. I start an > instance: > > Xvfb :52 -screen 0 1024x768x24 -fbdir /tmp/xvfb.52 -ac > > and then run tests with "DISPLAY=:52". Recently I updated my debian > testing system and the server has started crashing regularly after a few > hundred tests have run. I tried building the version of the code being > tested to a time before this problem started but it didn't help. > Unfortunately I've been unable to reproduce the crash except by running > all the tests (and eventually one crashes Xvfb but which one is not > repeatable). However, I've localized the problem somewhat. > > The Xvfb process reports a bunch of these messages (about 1 per test): > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc" refcount is 2, should be 1; > fixing. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This message used to appear on server reset, and is not an issue. > Later it reports a few messages of this form: > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > [config/hal] couldn't initialise context: > org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.LimitsExceeded (Connection ":1.20" is not allowed > to add more match rules (increase limits in configuration file if required)) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > and then crashes. If I stop the dbus daemon (/etc/init.d/dbus stop) the > crash does not occur. I found some discussion about this error here: > > http://www.nabble.com/org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.LimitsExceeded-td17000158.html > > but didn't see much about fixing it. I tried to reproduce this with Xvfb 1.7.0 (the latest upstream version). I ran 'Xvfb :1' and 'for i in `seq 200`; do DISPLAY=:1 xterm -e sleep 1', and sure enough after some time I get this: [config/hal] couldn't add match rule: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.LimitsExceeded (Connection ":1.1255" is not allowed to add more match rules (increase limits in configuration file if required)) [config/hal] cannot detect a HAL startup. Xvfb doesn't crash in this version, though, which is an improvement. In 1.6.x, Xvfb is plagued by bug#529927, so it crashes before the dbus connection limit is reached. Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
