Intermittent Errors in macOS Tests 👀

[roomrys]

Bug description

In 1.3.1, we added non-experimental support for macOS and have thus added the macos-latest image in our tests. Occasionally, certain tests for macOS will fail. Rerunning the test leads to a pass, thus indicating an intermittent failure. This issue tracks these intermittent failures.

#1551 (action)

tests/info/test_summary.py .                                             [ 27%]
Error: The operation was canceled.

Note: the operation was not canceled, but timed out after 300+ minutes.

#1456 (action)

FAILED tests/test_message.py::test_send_receive_pair - assert False
==== 1 failed, 590 passed, 11 skipped, 5559 warnings in 2694.51s (0:44:54) =====
Error: Process completed with exit code 1.
=================================== FAILURES ===================================
____________________________ test_send_receive_pair ____________________________

    def test_send_receive_pair():
        # run "sender" in a separate process
        Process(target=run_send).start()
    
        # receive messages in the main process
>       run_receive()

tests/test_message.py:52: 
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 

    def run_receive():
        receiver = PairedReceiver.from_defaults()
        receiver.setup()
    
        success = receiver.receive_handshake()
    
        # Make sure handshake was succesful
>       assert success
E       assert False

tests/test_message.py:29: AssertionError

Expected behaviour

The macOS test does not time-out.

Actual behaviour

The macOS test times out.

Your personal set up

• OS:
  macOS 12.6.7
• Version(s):

• SLEAP installation method (listed here):
  • Conda from package
  • Conda from source
  • pip package
  • Apple Silicon Macs

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