stress/graphics test failed, rendercheck not run

[Samantha Jian-Pielak]

checkbox: 0.14.6+bzr1644+201209070158~precise1

stress/graphics test was run completely on a 12.04 system and returned "Graphics Stress Test completed, but there are errors. Please see the log /graphics-stress-results for details"
There is no error in the log, however, it seems it kicked off the rendercheck
test and no test result was logged.

Will attach the log.

[Brendan Donegan (brendan-donegan)]

The program rendercheck is not installed by Checkbox, nor do I have any idea where to get it. I'm pretty sure this being missing is the reason for the test failing, but if you look in the log file you should be able to confirm it.

[Daniel Manrique (roadmr)]

rendercheck is part of x11-apps, but *only* for Quantal (version 7.7). It's not present in Precise which only has version 7.6.

 Work needed:

1- Ask the test's author if he knows whether rendercheck is available for Precise and see about getting the dependencies correct for this one. I'm checking to see if the test can require: a specific package version.
2- Fix the script to make it check for its requirements internally. I prefer scripts to be runnable standalone, so this would make sense anyway.
3- Fix the script so that if it fails to run a command, it shows a useful error message instead of erroring out. This is the reason why Samantha's results report shows nothing; the script was happily printing stuff to stdout when an exception appeared due to rendercheck not being found. So the script stops abruptly with no indication of what went wrong (as that was in stderr).

[Daniel Manrique (roadmr)]

Part of the puzzle is having x11-apps 7.7 available for Precise. This public PPA has it:

https://launchpad.net/~canonical-hwe-team/+archive/piglit