On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 5:00 AM, R. David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> wrote:
I believe gui depends on the existence of the DISPLAY environment variable on unix/linux (that is, TK will fail to start if DISPLAY is not set, so _is_gui_available will return False). You should be able to confirm this by looking at the text of the skip message in the buildbot output.
A recent buildbot log [1] shows that the GUI tests are being skipped, although I'm not seeing the message. Where do I go to set DISPLAY for the bot (which runs mostly in the background)? Note that it's all running as root, which may make a difference to the defaults, so this might have to be done more explicitly than it otherwise would. (But root is quite happy to use X; running xclock brings up a clock just fine.) [1] http://buildbot.python.org/all/builders/AMD64%20Debian%20root%203.5/builds/2... ChrisA