[ubuntu-dev] Bug#733420: gdebi: FTBFS: xvfb-run: error: xauth command not found

[David Suárez]

Source: gdebi
Version: 0.9.2
Severity: serious
Tags: jessie sid
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20131226 qa-ftbfs
Justification: FTBFS on amd64

Hi,

During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build on
amd64.

Relevant part (hopefully):
> msgfmt zh_TW.po -o mo/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/gdebi.mo 
> # update the po files 
> #for f in an.po ar.po ast.po bg.po bn.po bs.po ca.po ca at valencia.po cs.po da.po de.po el.po en_AU.po en_CA.po en_GB.po eo.po es.po et.po eu.po fa.po fi.po fo.po fr.po gl.po he.po hr.po hu.po hy.po id.po it.po ja.po ko.po ku.po lt.po mr.po ms.po nb.po nl.po oc.po pl.po pt.po pt_BR.po ro.po ru.po si.po sk.po sl.po sr.po sv.po te.po th.po tl.po tr.po uk.po ur.po zh_CN.po zh_HK.po zh_TW.po; do \
> 	#	intltool-update -r ${f%.po}  -g gdebi; \
> 	#done
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/«PKGBUILDDIR»/po'
>    debian/rules override_dh_auto_test
> make[1]: Entering directory `/«PKGBUILDDIR»'
> xvfb-run nosetests
> xvfb-run: error: xauth command not found
> make[1]: *** [override_dh_auto_test] Error 3

The full build log is available from:
   http://aws-logs.debian.net/ftbfs-logs/2013/12/26/gdebi_0.9.2_unstable.log

A list of current common problems and possible solutions is available at
http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS . You're welcome to contribute!

About the archive rebuild: The rebuild was done on EC2 VM instances from
Amazon Web Services, using a clean, minimal and up-to-date chroot. Every
failed build was retried once to eliminate random failures.