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[Martin Olsson <mnemo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

xvfb is a utility for running test suites on machines with no physical keyboard / monitor (i.e. no running XServer).
For details, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xvfb

Using karmic, when I launch "Xvfb :1 &" I get these errors:

(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (2)
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (2)
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (2)
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (2)

...if I instead try "Xvfb :9 &" then I get this error:

[dix] Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic, removing from list!
[config/dbus] couldn't take over org.x.config: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied (Connection ":1.7990" is not allowed to own the service "org.x.config.display9" due to security policies in the configuration file)
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (2)
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (2)
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (2)
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (2)

...so I guess xvfb is broken in karmic. And I suspect it will become
even more borked in lucid given the migration away from hal.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: xvfb 2:1.6.0-0ubuntu14
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xorg-server
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-15-generic i686

** Affects: xorg-server (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug i386

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xvfb depends on HAL and fails to start
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/487575
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