I’m currently trying to move GMF-Runtime build to Tycho (following GMF-Tooling). I asked for a job on the hudson.eclipse.org server for this new fast and simple build but I encountered an issue. And I found a solution.
The issue
GMF is a graphical framework, so there are User Interface tests. Unfortunately, they failed with the following error - which you can find in .log of the workspace/.metadata folder - when you run any test on the eclipse server:
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org.eclipse.swt.SWTError: No more handles [gtk_init_check() failed]
at org.eclipse.swt.SWT.error(SWT.java:4308)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.createDisplay(Display.java:909)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.create(Display.java:897)
at org.eclipse.swt.graphics.Device.(Device.java:157)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.(Display.java:500)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.(Display.java:491)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createDisplay(Workbench.java:711)
at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createDisplay(PlatformUI.java:161)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.application.IDEApplication.createDisplay(IDEApplication.java:153)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.application.IDEApplication.start(IDEApplication.java:95)
at org.eclipse.tycho.surefire.osgibooter.UITestApplication.runApplication(UITestApplication.java:31)
at org.eclipse.tycho.surefire.osgibooter.AbstractUITestApplication.run(AbstractUITestApplication.java:114)
at org.eclipse.tycho.surefire.osgibooter.UITestApplication.start(UITestApplication.java:37)
at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.app.EclipseAppHandle.run(EclipseAppHandle.java:196)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.runApplication(EclipseAppLauncher.java:110)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.start(EclipseAppLauncher.java:79)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:344)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:179)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:622)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:577)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1410)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:1386)
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The solution
I spent some time on Google and found the solution... in several chunks. So I put them together to provide the solution here in a single piece:- Check Run Xvnc during build (and don’t bother to check take screenshot, it doesn’t work)
- Add an Execute shell build action before launching your tests with metacity --replace --sm-disable & :
Simple but it’s all in one place. Hope it will help you.
And - talking about help - any help on understanding why these three GMF tests are still failing is very welcome.