Some TestIconLoader unit tests intermittently fail during Jenkins CI

[Christopher Townsend]

During Jenkins Continuous Integration, we get intermittent TestIconLoader unit test failures. It's usually one or more of the following tests:

TestIconLoader.TestGetOneIcon
TestIconLoader.TestGetAnnotatedIcon
TestIconLoader.TestGetColorizedIcon

[PS Jenkins bot (ps-jenkins)]

Fix committed into lp:unity at revision None, scheduled for release in unity, milestone 7.1.1

[Andrea Azzarone (azzar1)]

Still an issue: https://jenkins.qa.ubuntu.com/job/unity-saucy-i386-autolanding/245/console

[PS Jenkins bot (ps-jenkins)]

Fix committed into lp:unity at revision None, scheduled for release in unity, milestone 7.1.1

[Christopher Townsend (townsend)]

So, this is STILL an issue even with a 15 second timeout: https://jenkins.qa.ubuntu.com/job/unity-saucy-i386-autolanding/249/consoleFull

I think something else is going on.

Maybe this in the console log is clue??????
ERROR 2013-09-18 19:29:43 unity.glib.dbus.proxy GLibDBusProxy.cpp:194 Unable to connect to proxy: Could not connect: No such file or directory
ERROR 2013-09-18 19:29:44 unity.glib.dbus.proxy GLibDBusProxy.cpp:194 Unable to connect to proxy: Could not connect: No such file or directory

Is this because of DBus acting up or Jenkins acting up?

[PS Jenkins bot (ps-jenkins)]

Fix committed into lp:unity at revision None, scheduled for release in unity, milestone 7.1.1

[Michal Hruby (mhr3)]

Fwiw IconLoader doesn't use nor need DBus, so the error is something completely unrelated.

[Christopher Townsend (townsend)]

Hi Michal,

I think you're right. I think the error message printed out during the failing test is a red herring. That said, do you have any idea why these tests sometimes will not complete in a timely manner? I have added up to a 15 second timeout, and they will still sometimes fail when the timer expires.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 7.1.0+13.10.20130920-0ubuntu1

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unity (7.1.0+13.10.20130920-0ubuntu1) saucy; urgency=low

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[Stephen M. Webb (bregma)]

Fix Released in Nux Unity 7.1.1.