Comment 12 for bug 1911400

The IRC discussion ended with a request to file a bug report upstream which I'll do tomorrow.

The fix disabling the particular call in the test is in the PPA and running tests now.

PPA: https://launchpad.net/~paelzer/+archive/ubuntu/lp-1911400-octave-test-fails/+packages
Test resuts LGTM with that:
https://objectstorage.prodstack4-5.canonical.com/v1/AUTH_77e2ada1e7a84929a74ba3b87153c0ac/autopkgtest-hirsute-paelzer-lp-1911400-octave-test-fails/hirsute/amd64/o/octave-parallel/20210114_054820_47988@/log.gz
https://objectstorage.prodstack4-5.canonical.com/v1/AUTH_77e2ada1e7a84929a74ba3b87153c0ac/autopkgtest-hirsute-paelzer-lp-1911400-octave-test-fails/hirsute/amd64/o/octave-parallel/20210114_055400_e343a@/log.gz
https://objectstorage.prodstack4-5.canonical.com/v1/AUTH_77e2ada1e7a84929a74ba3b87153c0ac/autopkgtest-hirsute-paelzer-lp-1911400-octave-test-fails/hirsute/s390x/o/octave-parallel/20210114_054541_ab0bc@/log.gz
https://objectstorage.prodstack4-5.canonical.com/v1/AUTH_77e2ada1e7a84929a74ba3b87153c0ac/autopkgtest-hirsute-paelzer-lp-1911400-octave-test-fails/hirsute/s390x/o/octave-parallel/20210114_055346_e343a@/log.gz

I'm also filing an upstream bug about it