Bug#750343: autopkgtest: FTBFS: Tests failures

[mpitt@debian.org (Martin Pitt)]

severity 750343 important
tag 750343 moreinfo unreproducible
thanks

Hey David,

David Su?rez [2014-06-02 20:22 +0200]:
> > ======================================================================
> > FAIL: test_unicode (__main__.NullRunnerNoRoot)
> > Unicode test output
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "tests/adt-run", line 2193, in <module>
> >     unittest.main(testRunner=unittest.TextTestRunner(stream=sys.stdout, verbosity=2))
> >   File "/usr/lib/python3.4/unittest/main.py", line 93, in __init__
> >     self.runTests()
> >   File "/usr/lib/python3.4/unittest/main.py", line 244, in runTests
> >     self.result = testRunner.run(self.test)
> >   File "/usr/lib/python3.4/unittest/runner.py", line 175, in run
> >     result.printErrors()
> >   File "/usr/lib/python3.4/unittest/runner.py", line 110, in printErrors
> >     self.printErrorList('FAIL', self.failures)
> >   File "/usr/lib/python3.4/unittest/runner.py", line 117, in printErrorList
> >     self.stream.writeln("%s" % err)
> >   File "/usr/lib/python3.4/unittest/runner.py", line 25, in writeln
> >     self.write(arg)
> > UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 917-919: ordinal not in range(128)
> > make[1]: *** [override_dh_auto_test] Error 1

I'm afraid that backtrace only has Python's unittest module when it
tries to print a failure, but it doesn't show the actual failure in
tests/adt-run. So I can't say yet which assertion in the test actually
failed.

The test succeeds in my Debian sid schroot when sbuilding and Ubuntu's
buildds.

I tried to run the test under LC_ALL=C, de_DE.UTF-8, and a
non-existing xx_YY.UTF-8 locale, and it always succeeds. Can you
please tell me which locale your build environment uses, so that I can
narrow down the problem a bit? How did you build the schroot, with
which tool and which host locale? Perhaps I can reproduce that
schroot locally.

I'm downgrading to important as it's not reproducible, so that this
doesn't block the propagation of 2.17.

Thanks,

Martin

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