I'm afraid I can't reproduce the original problem here. If I run this test, I see a few windows (Mahjong, terminal, etc.) flying by, and after a few seconds it crashes with
$ autopilot run autopilot.tests.functional.test_open_window.OpenWindowTests.test_open_window Loading tests from: /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages Tests running... ** (gedit:16944): WARNING **: Could not load Gedit repository: Typelib file for namespace 'GtkSource', version '3.0' not found ====================================================================== ERROR: autopilot.tests.functional.test_open_window.OpenWindowTests.test_open_window(System Settings) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): _StringException: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/autopilot/tests/functional/test_open_window.py", line 44, in test_open_window win = self.process_manager.start_app_window(self.app_name) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/autopilot/process/_bamf.py", line 139, in start_app_window window = self._open_window(app_name, files, locale) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/autopilot/process/_bamf.py", line 164, in _open_window self._launch_application(app['desktop-file'], files) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/autopilot/process/_bamf.py", line 329, in _launch_application proc = Gio.DesktopAppInfo.new(desktop_file) TypeError: constructor returned NULL Ran 7 tests in 8.227s FAILED (failures=1) and it behaves exactly the same way with "... | tee /tmp/foo". Trunk shows the exact same behaviour with python -m autopilot.run run autopilot.tests.functional.test_open_window.OpenWindowTests.test_open_window | tee /tmp/foo I understand this would only hang if there is an application which does not close automatically again. Does that happen in your case? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1259721 Title: Executing autopilot test suite fails to close when piped to tee To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/autopilot/+bug/1259721/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs