Document fixes and workarounds for test failures.

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Eric S. Raymond 2013-04-07 17:02:28 -04:00 committed by Michael Stapelberg
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$ less latest/i3-log-for-04-floating.t
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If your attempt to run the tests with a bare call to ./complete-run.pl fails, try this:
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$ ./complete-run.pl --parallel=1 --keep-xdummy-output
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One common cause of failures is not having the X dummy server module
installed. Under Debian and Ubuntu this is the package
+xserver-xorg-video-dummy+.
==== IPC interface
The testsuite makes extensive use of the IPC (Inter-Process Communication)