gnome-base/eel fails emerging during the testing phase if feature maketest is enabled. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge gnome-base/eel 2. 3. Actual Results: >>> Test phase [check]: gnome-base/eel-2.8.2 Making check in eel make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/eel-2.8.2/work/eel-2.8.2/eel' make check-TESTS make[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/eel-2.8.2/work/eel-2.8.2/eel' Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: aborting... (process:17865): Gdk-CRITICAL (recursed) **: file gdkdisplay-x11.c: line 455 (gdk_display_pointer_ungrab): assertion `GDK_IS_DISPLAY (display)' failed aborting... Multiple segmentation faults occurred; can't display error dialog FAIL: check-eel =================== 1 of 1 tests failed =================== make[2]: *** [check-TESTS] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/eel-2.8.2/work/eel-2.8.2/eel' make[1]: *** [check-am] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/eel-2.8.2/work/eel-2.8.2/eel' make: *** [check-recursive] Error 1 !!! ERROR: gnome-base/eel-2.8.2 failed. !!! Function src_test, Line 520, Exitcode 0 !!! Make check failed. See above for details. !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. Expected Results: ignore tests if X access is not possible; otherwise pass the tests anyhow. Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.9-gentoo-r9 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r9 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1400MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 distcc 2.16 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3 Headers: sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -pipe -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fforce-addr -frename-registers -fprefetch-loop-arrays -falign-functions=64" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -pipe -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fforce-addr -frename-registers -fprefetch-loop-arrays -falign-functions=64" DISTDIR="/misc/portagedistfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache collision-protect distlocks maketest prelink sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/ http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/ opsys/linux/gentoo/ http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/src/Projects/ebuilds" SYNC="rsync://loddar2/gentoo-portage" USE="X Xaw3d aalib acpi alsa apache2 arts artswrappersuid audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts cddb cdparanoiacdr crypt cups curl dga divx4linux djbfft dv dvd dvdr dvdread edl encode esd ethereal faad fam flac fmod fpx gdbm gif gnomegphoto2 gpm graphviz gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hostap-nopci hostap-noplx i8x0 ieee1394 imagemagick imlib innodb ipv6jabber jack java jbig jit joystick jpeg jpeg2k junit kde lcms ldap libcaca libg++ libwww lirc live lzo lzw-tiff mad matroska mikmod mmap mmx mng monkey motif mozilla mozsvg mpeg ncurses nls no-old-linux no_wxgtk1 noantlr nobcel nobeanutils nobsh nocommonslogging nocommonsnet nojdepend nojsch nojython nolog4j nooro noregexp norhino noxalan noxerces nptl oggvorbis opengloss pam pda pdflib perl pic plotutils png povray python qt quicktime readline real rtc samba sasl scanner sdl silc slang sndfile speex spell sse sse2 ssl tcpd tetex tga theora tiff truetype usb userlocales vdesktop wifi wmf x86 xine xml xml2 xmms xprint xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc yv12 zlib"
Would be because the user doesn't have access to your display, but see the duped bug for our maketest reasoning. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 69343 ***