Document fixes and workarounds for test failures.
Patch status: merged
Patch by Eric S. Raymond
To apply this patch, use:
curl http://cr.i3wm.org/patch/129/raw.patch | git am
b/docs/testsuite
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@@ -143,6 +143,16 @@ Result: PASS |
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$ less latest/i3-log-for-04-floating.t |
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+If your attempt to run the tests with a bare call to ./complete-run.pl fails, try this: |
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+$ ./complete-run.pl --parallel=1 --keep-xdummy-output |
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+--------------------------------------------------- |
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+One common cause of failures is not having the X dummy server module |
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+installed. Under Debian and Ubuntu this is the package |
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++xserver-xorg-video-dummy+. |
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==== IPC interface |
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The testsuite makes extensive use of the IPC (Inter-Process Communication) |