Right, as discussed with jibel on IRC, I think the best thing to do in this case is to disable the snapshot testing. You're running in such an unusual environment that trying to fix this for your use case will take a significant amount of effort, and won't really help you much anyway.
The best way to disable this is to override a method in AutopilotTestCase, like so: class MyTests(AutopilotTestCase): def _compare_system_with_app_snapshot(self): pass # Disable application snapshot comparison. I'm marking this as 'won't fix' in autopilot. If the solution above isn't acceptable to you, please let me know and we can try and work out something else. Cheers, ** Changed in: autopilot Status: Incomplete => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1260012 Title: app snapshot during test setup is being set to an empty list To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/autopilot/+bug/1260012/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs