Bug 245332 – [WPE][GTK] a11y dbus proxy is set-up too early

• Status: NEW
• Component: Tools / Tests

[Philippe Normand]

When running layout tests on a headless bot (WPE Debug Tests for instance), the "setup_a11y_proxy()" method emits a warning and returns an empty list:

Error connecting: Cannot autolaunch D-Bus without X11 $DISPLAY
Failed to get a11y address Command '('gdbus', 'call', '-e', '-d', 'org.a11y.Bus', '-o', '/org/a11y/bus', '-m', 'org.a11y.Bus.GetAddress')' returned non-zero exit status 1.

I suspect that's then triggering a bunch of accessibility timeouts on the bot and harness bails out early...

On this specific bot (https://build.webkit.org/#/builders/14) it seems(?) there's no dbus running at all either...

If we want to keep running this gdbus call that early (before xvfb has been started), we need to make sure all bots have a working dbus setup, since auto-launching clearly is not working out.

[Michael Catanzaro]

Maybe run xvfb under dbus-run-session?

[Carlos Garcia Campos]

The layout tests don't use atspi service at all, so we don't needs to start it. It's needed for the unit tests, though.

[Philippe Normand]

The WebProcess becomes un-responsive on the WPE Debug bot, I don't know why:

20:30:56.465 3 worker/0 starting
20:30:56.467 3 worker/1 starting
20:30:56.468 3 worker/2 starting
20:30:56.470 3 worker/3 starting
20:30:56.472 3 worker/4 starting
20:31:11.825 3 worker/1 WPEWebProcess is unresponsive, pid = None
20:31:11.829 3 worker/4 WPEWebProcess is unresponsive, pid = None
20:31:11.829 3 worker/2 WPEWebProcess is unresponsive, pid = None
20:31:11.832 3 worker/0 WPEWebProcess is unresponsive, pid = None
20:31:11.834 3 worker/2 worker/2 animations/CSSKeyframesRule-name-null.html output stderr lines:
20:31:11.842 3 worker/2   Failed to load 'about:blank', terminating process and trying again.
20:31:11.843 3 worker/2   WPEWebProcess terminated (pid 0) for reason: requested by client
20:31:11.843 3 worker/2   Failed to load 'about:blank' again after termination.
20:31:11.844 3 worker/2   <unknown> - TestController::run - Failed to reset state to consistent values
20:31:11.844 3 worker/2   #PROCESS UNRESPONSIVE - WPEWebProcess

[Philippe Normand]

And it seems this has been going possibly since February 2022.

[Philippe Normand]

Another issue, possibly orthogonal to this one here, but might contribute to timeouts... we keep gathering crash dumps even for expected crashes. Isn't that a bit of a waste of virtual virtual CPU cycles? Expected crashes are not linked in the results page.