Bug#1081417: gnome-settings-daemon: frequent test failure: timed out waiting for plugin startup: XSettings

[Simon McVittie]

Source: gnome-settings-daemon
Version: 47~rc-1
Severity: serious
Tags: ftbfs
Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past)

In several of the buildd builds, test-xsettings fails with:

> ======================================================================
> FAIL: test_fontconfig_timestamp (__main__.XsettingsPluginTest.test_fontconfig_timestamp)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/plugins/xsettings/test.py", line 79, in setUp
>     self.start_plugin(os.environ.copy())
>   File "/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/tests/gsdtestcase.py", line 332, in start_plugin
>     assert timeout > 0, 'timed out waiting for plugin startup: %s' % (self.gsd_plugin_case)
>            ^^^^^^^^^^^
> AssertionError: timed out waiting for plugin startup: XSettings
>
> ======================================================================
> FAIL: test_gtk_modules (__main__.XsettingsPluginTest.test_gtk_modules)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/plugins/xsettings/test.py", line 79, in setUp
>     self.start_plugin(os.environ.copy())
>   File "/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/tests/gsdtestcase.py", line 332, in start_plugin
>     assert timeout > 0, 'timed out waiting for plugin startup: %s' % (self.gsd_plugin_case)
>            ^^^^^^^^^^^
> AssertionError: timed out waiting for plugin startup: XSettings

There's some previous discussion of this on
https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/gnome-settings-daemon/-/merge_requests/20

    smcv