Bug#750343: autopkgtest: FTBFS: Tests failures

[David Suárez]

Source: autopkgtest
Version: 2.16.4
Severity: serious
Tags: jessie sid
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20140601 qa-ftbfs
Justification: FTBFS on amd64

Hi,

During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build on
amd64.

Relevant part (hopefully):
> make[1]: Entering directory '/«PKGBUILDDIR»'
> tests/pyflakes
> tests/pep8 || true
> tests/adt-run NullRunnerNoRoot
> test_dev_stdouterr_access (__main__.NullRunnerNoRoot)
> write to /dev/stdout and /dev/stderr in a test ... ok
> test_isolation (__main__.NullRunnerNoRoot)
> isolation restrictions ... ok
> test_no_tests_dir (__main__.NullRunnerNoRoot)
> package without debian/tests/ ... ok
> test_summary (__main__.NullRunnerNoRoot)
> --summary option ... ok
> test_tree_allow_stderr_nobuild_success (__main__.NullRunnerNoRoot)
> source tree, no build, allow-stderr, test success ... ok
> test_tree_norestrictions_nobuild_fail_on_stderr_and_exit (__main__.NullRunnerNoRoot)
> source tree, no build, no restrictions, test fails with stderr+exit ... ok
> test_unicode (__main__.NullRunnerNoRoot)
> Unicode test output ... FAIL
> 
> ======================================================================
> 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

The full build log is available from:
   http://aws-logs.debian.net/ftbfs-logs/2014/06/01/autopkgtest_2.16.4_unstable.log

A list of current common problems and possible solutions is available at
http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS . You're welcome to contribute!

About the archive rebuild: The rebuild was done on EC2 VM instances from
Amazon Web Services, using a clean, minimal and up-to-date chroot. Every
failed build was retried once to eliminate random failures.