Run adt (Adobe's AIR developer tool) from SSH

Question

Attempting to run adt from an SSH session results in:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.InternalError: Can't connect to window server - not enough permissions.
 at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method)
 at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(ClassLoader.java:1827)
 at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1724)
 at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Runtime.java:823)
 at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java:1045)
 at sun.security.action.LoadLibraryAction.run(LoadLibraryAction.java:50)
 at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
 at java.awt.Toolkit.loadLibraries(Toolkit.java:1605)
 at java.awt.Toolkit.<clinit>(Toolkit.java:1627)
 at java.awt.Dimension.<clinit>(Dimension.java:70)
...

Normally this can be fixed by passing -Djava.awt.headless=true to java. However, adt spawns other java processes without this argument, so this solution doesn't work.

I was able to hack my way around by replacing /usr/bin/java with a shell script containing:

java.old -Djava.awt.headless=true "$@"

However, this affects all java processes running on this box, causing many other issues. There has to be a better way...

Answer 1

I just noticed there's an extremely simple work-around. I tested this on OS X, and although not exactly a solution, might be good enough. Just ensure that the user trying to adt over ssh has an open console session and adt will run fine.

Answer 2

The only work arounds you tend to find are making the your Jenkins user an actual user on OSX.
I have been having to rely on setting up Jenkins as a normal user on my OSX build box. Even utilizing the Xvfb Jenkins plug-in does not help the problem. It's extremely frustrating.

There is a rather unhelpful thread from Adobe here:

http://forums.adobe.com/message/4162406

There is another thread here for wrapping part of the job in a shell script:

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/fluint-discussions/tL6AEWKgDfw