Strange failure on SL and ML buildslaves

[William Siegrist]

On Jan 3, 2013, at 2:19 AM, Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:

> On 2013-1-3 19:10 , Adam Mercer wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>> After I recent commit:
>> 
>> <http://trac.macports.org/changeset/101018>
>> 
>> I recieved emails from buildbot regarding a failure on SL and ML:
>> 
>> <https://build.macports.org/builders/buildports-mtln-x86_64/builds/749>
>> <https://build.macports.org/builders/buildports-snowleopard-x86_64/builds/13434>
>> 
> 
> This is the kind of thing you see when the build process tries to create
> a GUI window and you don't have a GUI session. So on any headless
> server, or when you're ssh'd in. We've seen this happen with Java ports
> that use AWT (where the solution is to use -Djava.awt.headless=true).
> 
> The only real solution, AFAIK, is "don't do that", or handle the failure
> gracefully.
> 
> No idea why Lion alone would be unaffected.
> 


The ML slave was not logged in, the Lion and SL slaves were logged in. I did not explicitly set the slaves up to stay logged in or not, so let me know how you want them to behave and I'll make them consistent. 

-Bill