Drone: cannot connect to X server

sravan1265 · March 15, 2018, 10:44am

I have installed drone CLI in my machine and drone-server and drone-agent is running on same machine. While executing commands throwing error like “drone: cannot connect to X server”.

Any help on this…?

sravan1265 · March 15, 2018, 11:42am

One more help please…!
I want to trigger builds in the early morning in the specific time and for configuring the pipeline according to the changes made in bitbucket from repository…

I am new to Drone… Please help in this scenario to go head.

Thanks
Sravan

olymk2 · March 16, 2018, 11:57am

This sounds like your tests require an xserver, but would need to see your drone file and more details from the logs.

assuming your test do require xserver you need to make sure thats inside the container and setup.

This repo does use an xserver but i had to make a custom docker image to achieve this.

github.com

olymk2/hgl/blob/master/.drone.yml

workspace:
  base: /drone
  path: src

pipeline:
  tests:
    image: thewtex/opengl-mesa
    environment:https://github.com/olymk2/hgl.git
      - PYTHONUSERBASE=/drone/src/cache/packages
    commands:
      - apt update -y
      - apt install -y $(cat apt-requirements.txt)
#      - pip2 install --cache-dir /drone/src/cache/pip -r /drone/src/requirements.txt
      - ls -la /drone/src/
      - mkdir -p /usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/
      - pip install -r /drone/src/pip-requirements.txt
      # - pip3 --cache-dir /drone/src/cache/pip install -r /drone/src/pip-requirements.txt
      - pip3 --help 
      - pip3 --version
      - pip3 install -r /drone/src/pip-requirements.txt

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sravan1265 · March 16, 2018, 12:29pm

Thanks for the quick response.

I have fixed “drone: cannot connect to X server” this issue.

Currently I am running Drone server and agent in the same machine.

For now I stuck at different scenario like, my current requirement is i need to run some scripts(like Ubuntu Dependencies scripts…etc) in the particular server when ever we do any code changes in the bitbucket repository, so for that how to write a yml file for this.

Basically i am new to Drone.io

Please help me to come out from this scenario.

Thanks
Sravan

olymk2 · March 16, 2018, 2:19pm

Well drone will run what ever you tell it in the commands list like scripts apt commands.

really your dependencies should already be resolved in the container your pulling, but if you do need a few more just add apt install packages as one of the commands to run like in the example above where i pull pip dependencies.

sravan1265 · March 19, 2018, 4:15am

Thanks for the response…!

I have once doubt…! Without Docker Image or container in pipeline can we run custom scripts in .yml file when we push code to repository…?

As of now still i am not able to understand Drone.io flow … How it works and i am not able to find drone architecture.

sravan1265 · March 19, 2018, 6:17am

Hi Mark,

Can you please give me an update on this… once you get the free time…!!