CODEWITHSUNDEEP
firefoxjenkins
user891193
user891193

Reputation:

unable to run firefox through jenkins?

I am running robot framework through jenkins but when ever i am running the build, i get the firefox error

Started by user anonymous Building in workspace /var/lib/jenkins/jobs/Rocko/workspace

git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree # timeout=10 Fetching changes from the remote Git repository git config remote.origin.url https://github.com/pradeekyahvi/robot.git # timeout=10 Fetching upstream changes from https://github.com/pradeekyahvi/robot.git git --version # timeout=10 using .gitcredentials to set credentials git config --local credential.helper store --file=/tmp/git3401708129991506911.credentials # timeout=10 git fetch --tags --progress https://github.com/pradeekyahvi/robot.git +refs/heads/:refs/remotes/origin/ git config --local --remove-section credential # timeout=10 git rev-parse refs/remotes/origin/master^{commit} # timeout=10 git rev-parse refs/remotes/origin/origin/master^{commit} # timeout=10 Checking out Revision 7a869c5dd37a5c5875c17651a060a7536662ff75 (refs/remotes/origin/master) git config core.sparsecheckout # timeout=10 git checkout -f 7a869c5dd37a5c5875c17651a060a7536662ff75 First time build. Skipping changelog. Triggering Rocko » firefox Rocko » firefox completed with result FAILURE Finished: FAILURE

I am using linux mint 17 and firefox 33.0.Jenkins version is 1.590.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2201

Answers (2)

NotAgain
NotAgain

Reputation: 1977

I had the issue of Jenkins refusing to launch GUI based programs when it was running as a service on Windows. Running Jenkins via Command line solved the issue.

Upvotes: 0

sti
sti

Reputation: 11075

You did not state how you run Jenkins or what plugins you have configured, so I am assuming you are installed Jenkins using the package manager of your distribution and are running with Jenkins with defaults.

Firefox is a GUI application and it needs to connect to an X server to send it commands to draw windows and such. Usually Jenkins is set up to run as a background system daemon that has no access to any X server session.

There are X servers that draw into memory and need no access to graphics hardware. There are even Jenkins plugins to help you set up the build environment for a GUI process like Firefox.

These are Xvfb plugin and Xvnc plugin. Xvfb plugin is maybe a bit easier to set up but Xvnc allows you to connect to the server to see what the GUI process is doing, which might be valuable for debugging.

Upvotes: 1

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