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Re: [linuxtools-dev] Failing SWTBot test on Hudson

Thanks. It seems to be working well now. Something to keep in mind if
one has to create a new Hudson job from scratch.

Marc-Andre

On 14-05-01 11:22 AM, Aleksandar Kurtakov wrote:
> Please do so. If we can get more stable swtbot I would be more than happy.
>
> Alexander Kurtakov
> Red Hat Eclipse team
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Marc-André Laperle" <marc-andre.laperle@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: "Linux Tools developer discussions" <linuxtools-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Thursday, May 1, 2014 5:55:53 PM
>> Subject: [linuxtools-dev] Failing SWTBot test on Hudson
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have spent some time investigating one of our SWTBot tests failing on
>> eclipse.org's Hudson (see change 25455 [1]). Strangely, after opening
>> one of the dialogs, SWTBot can't find anything and nothing is in focus.
>> However, I have seen in the SWTBot wiki [2] that metacity is the
>> recommended window manager. If I change the shell script in the Hudson
>> configuration to use metacity then it works correctly. I think Hudson is
>> using either fvwm (according to discussion in bug 314811 [3]) or KDE 3
>> (looking at printed environment variables).
>>
>> If there are objections, I will change the Hudson jobs to use metacity.
>> This will let us run those tests again on Hudson.
>>
>> The command in question is:
>>
>> metacity --replace --sm-disable &
>>
>> It is also used by EGit in their Hudson jobs.
>>
>> [1] https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/25455/
>> [2] http://wiki.eclipse.org/SWTBot/Automate_test_execution#Linux_hints_2
>> [3] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=314811
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Marc-Andre
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