Re: Build Flex in a Headless Environment

[Marvin Froeder <ve...@gmail.com>]

It would be really nice if you share your tips with other users by add this
info on flexmojos wiki
https://docs.sonatype.org/display/FLEXMOJOS/Running+unit+tests#Runningunittests-linux

It is public editable.


VELO

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Eric Fetzer <el...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Ok, I figured it out.  Here are the steps I had to take to get this going
> in
> RedHat:
>
>        1. Install FlashPlayer10
>        2. Add FlashPLayer to your path
>        3. Install Xvfb by entering:  >up2date -i xorg-x11-Xvfb
>        4. Get xvfb-run.sh from:
>
> http://www.flexthinker.com/2009/09/building-a-flex-project-with-maven-using-hudson-on-centos/xvfb-run-sh/
>  and
>  copy it to /usr/local/bin (remove the .sh extension)
>        5. chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/xvfb
>        6. Edit /etc/ld.so.conf.d/flashplayer10-i386.conf to add:
> /usr/evolution28/lib
>        7. Run >ldconfig
>        8. Add the following to your profile:
> MAVEN_OPTS="-Djava.awt.headless=true"
>         9. cd to the directory containing your pom file
>        10. >mvn install
>
> I hope this saves someone the pain I've gone through in the past few days.
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Eric Fetzer <el...@yahoo.com>
> To: users@maven.apache.org
> Sent: Wed, August 18, 2010 7:39:16 PM
> Subject: Build Flex in a Headless Environment
>
> Hi!  I'm very new to Maven and trying to build a flex client in a headless
> environment.  As long as I export my display, I get no issues.  However, I
> need
> to be able to do this headless so that it can be done in an automated
> fasion.
> I'm running:
>
> [root@newark rossPrototype-client]# mvn -version
> Apache Maven 2.2.1 (r801777; 2009-08-06 13:16:01-0600)
> Java version: 1.6.0_20
> Java home: /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_20/jre
> Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
> OS name: "linux" version: "2.6.9-89.el" arch: "i386" Family: "unix"
>
> With Flex 3 and flashplayer 10.  I've tried setting MAVEN_OPTS:
> -Djava.awt.headless=true
> I've tried adding to my pom file:
>
> <testRunner>
>            <launcher>
>                           <allowHeadlessMode>true</allowHeadlessMode>
>            </launcher>
> </testRunner>
>
> Neither of these things changed anything.  Here is the error I'm getting
> without
>
> my display exported based on the command
> >MAVEN_OPTS="-Djava.awt.headless=true"
> mvn install -X:
>
>
> ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
>
>
>
> [WARNING] [LAUNCHER] Using xvfb-run to launch headless tests
> [INFO]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [ERROR] BUILD ERROR
> [INFO]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [INFO] Failed to launch Flash Player.  Probably java was not able to find
> flashplayer.
>                 Make sure flashplayer is available on PATH
>                 or use -DflashPlayer.command=${flashplayer executable}
> Read more at:
> https://docs.sonatype.org/display/FLEXMOJOS/Running+unit+tests
> Embedded error: Failed to launch Flash Player in headless environment.
> java.io.IOException: error=2, No such file or directory
> [INFO]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [DEBUG] Trace
> org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: Failed to launch
> Flash
> Player.  Probably java was not able to find flashplayer.
>                 Make sure flashplayer is available on PATH
>                 or use -DflashPlayer.command=${flashplayer executable}
> Read more at:
> https://docs.sonatype.org/display/FLEXMOJOS/Running+unit+tests
>         at
>
> org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:719)
>
>
>         at
>
> org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalWithLifecycle(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:556)
>
>
>         at
>
> org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoal(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:535)
>
>
>         at
>
> org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalAndHandleFailures(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:387)
>
>
>         at
>
> org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeTaskSegments(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:348)
>
>
>         at
>
> org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.execute(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:180)
>
>
>         at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:328)
>         at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:138)
>         at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:362)
>         at
> org.apache.maven.cli.compat.CompatibleMain.main(CompatibleMain.java:60)
>         at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
>         at
>
> sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
>         at
>
> sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
>
>
>         at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
>         at
> org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:315)
>         at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:255)
>         at
> org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:430)
>         at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:375)
> Caused by: org.apache.maven.plugin.MojoExecutionException: Failed to launch
> Flash Player.  Probably java was not able to find flashplayer.
>                 Make sure flashplayer is available on PATH
>                 or use -DflashPlayer.command=${flashplayer executable}
> Read more at:
> https://docs.sonatype.org/display/FLEXMOJOS/Running+unit+tests
>         at
> org.sonatype.flexmojos.test.FlexUnitMojo.run(FlexUnitMojo.java:274)
>         at
> org.sonatype.flexmojos.test.FlexUnitMojo.execute(FlexUnitMojo.java:156)
>         at
>
> org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultPluginManager.java:490)
>
>
>         at
>
> org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:694)
>
>
>         ... 17 more
> Caused by: org.sonatype.flexmojos.test.launcher.LaunchFlashPlayerException:
> Failed to launch Flash Player in headless environment.
>         at
>
> org.sonatype.flexmojos.test.launcher.AsVmLauncher.runFlashplayerHeadless(AsVmLauncher.java:149)
>
>
>         at
>
> org.sonatype.flexmojos.test.launcher.AsVmLauncher.start(AsVmLauncher.java:77)
>         at
>
> org.sonatype.flexmojos.test.DefaultTestRunner.run(DefaultTestRunner.java:53)
>         at
> org.sonatype.flexmojos.test.FlexUnitMojo.run(FlexUnitMojo.java:262)
>         ... 20 more
> Caused by: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "xvfb-run":
> java.io.IOException: error=2, No such file or directory
>         at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:460)
>         at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:593)
>         at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:466)
>         at
>
> org.sonatype.flexmojos.test.launcher.AsVmLauncher.runFlashplayerHeadless(AsVmLauncher.java:142)
>
>
>         ... 23 more
> Caused by: java.io.IOException: java.io.IOException: error=2, No such file
> or
> directory
>         at java.lang.UNIXProcess.<init>(UNIXProcess.java:148)
>         at java.lang.ProcessImpl.start(ProcessImpl.java:65)
>         at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:453)
>         ... 26 more
> [INFO]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [INFO] Total time: 1 minute 20 seconds
> [INFO] Finished at: Wed Aug 18 19:37:03 MDT 2010
> [INFO] Final Memory: 43M/223M
> [INFO]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
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