And now I think I've got the auto-detection of free display and rough/
good-enough verification of Xvfb working now.
Seems to work... so I've updated the docs a wee bit and deployed a
new 1.0-beta-2-SNAPSHOT.
I think I'm down working on this for now. So Prasad, please have a
look and let me know if this will work for you. If so, I'll start a
vote for a release later next week.
On revision from the notes below, the default display is now :20, and
it will try and detect a free display from :20 to :30 (and then give
up and barf).
* * *
BTW, the Xvfb config needs to be put into a profile, and explicitly
activated, otherwise it will hose folks who don't have Xvfb installed
(and the profile must cause the execution of the xvfb goal before
start-server). I suppose if we really want I could probably figure
out how to detect when Xvfb is needed and if its available, but...
for now lets just make it explicitly activated for folks that need
the testsuite to run on a headless system.
Cheers,
--jason
On Jun 7, 2007, at 8:05 PM, Matt Hogstrom wrote:
Cool shtuffes ... your a busy beaver.
On Jun 7, 2007, at 6:52 PM, Jason Dillon wrote:
So, I hacked up something in the latest 1.0-beta-2-SNAPSHOT of the
selenium-maven-plugin. Its deployed, and some site docs updated.
http://mojo.codehaus.org/selenium-maven-plugin/examples/
headless-with-xvfb.html
Still needs more meat, but I wanna make sure it works before I
start investing in more docs.
But basically, you need to configure an execution *before* start-
server, for xvfb. It will be default background, etc. See the
goal doc for more details:
http://mojo.codehaus.org/selenium-maven-plugin/xvfb-mojo.html
Currently it will default to using DISPLAY=":1", not sure if that
is correct or not. Then it will fork an Xvfb process, write out a
target/selenium/display.properties file, which has the DISPLAY= in
it. And I updated the start-server goal to look for that file,
and if it exists set environment variables for each key/pair in
that file.
I think that should be sufficient to get headless muck working...
though I've not tested any of it ;-)
I think you will need to make the Xvfb process suid, as in:
chmod u+s `which Xvfb`
This puppy needs to be run as root, or at least AFAIK it does.
Anyways, give it a shot and lemme know how well it works, or if it
works at all. I will be around tomorrow to fix it up as needed.
Maybe my network will be stable then so I can run some tests on
the gbuild.org systems and better see how well it works out.
Aighty?
Cheers,
--jason
