Bug 182764 – [GTK] error: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set in the test environment.

• Status: NEW
• Component: WebKitGTK

[Michael Catanzaro]

We have dozens of tests printing the following stderr output:

error: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set in the environment.

I'm kinda surprised that anything works without XDG_RUNTIME_DIR set. Should be set to the user-private directory under /run, commonly /run/user/1000.

[Michael Catanzaro]

Hey Carlos Lopez, can you check what is wrong with the bots? This is not an environment variable that our test scripts should have to set up for themselves.

[Michael Catanzaro]

Adrian, is this something you could help with? We currently have 263 tests with stderr output, and I guess this is responsible for quite a few of them.

[Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez]

(In reply to Michael Catanzaro from comment #1)
> Hey Carlos Lopez, can you check what is wrong with the bots? This is not an
> environment variable that our test scripts should have to set up for
> themselves.

In our case it is.

That environment variable may be set when a user session is created, but in case of the bots there is no user session as such... its just a daemontool service executing the job as the buildbot user.

This was already set on the wayland and perf bots (those run under a real X11/wayland session), but not on the others that run over xvfb. I will be ensuring this environment variable is properly set when starting the service on all.