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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Random test failures in Legent tests (1.5.0rc2)","articleBody":"On my 10.11 OSX machine I am seeing random failures in legent tests such as\n\n```\n======================================================================\nFAIL: matplotlib.tests.test_legend.test_various_labels.test\n----------------------------------------------------------------------\nTraceback (most recent call last):\n  File \"/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nose/case.py\", line 197, in runTest\n    self.test(*self.arg)\n  File \"/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/testing/decorators.py\", line 53, in failer\n    result = f(*args, **kwargs)\n  File \"/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/testing/decorators.py\", line 220, in do_test\n    '(RMS %(rms).3f)'%err)\nImageComparisonFailure: images not close: /Users/jhn/src/python/matplotlib/result_images/test_legend/legend_various_labels.png vs. /Users/jhn/src/python/matplotlib/result_images/test_legend/legend_various_labels-expected.png (RMS 13.877)\n```\n\n![legend_various_labels](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/548266/10269279/f8568a10-6ac9-11e5-83a3-be8e84be8e3a.png)\n\nThis happens randomly for various of the tests with both python 2 and 3. I seem to be able to reproduce it outside the test suite so I don't think it is related to race conditions in the test code.\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/jenshnielsen","@type":"Person","name":"jenshnielsen"},"datePublished":"2015-10-04T18:01:19.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":31},"url":"https://github.com/5185/matplotlib/issues/5185"}