Random test failures in Legent tests (1.5.0rc2) #5185
Description
On my 10.11 OSX machine I am seeing random failures in legent tests such as
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FAIL: matplotlib.tests.test_legend.test_various_labels.test
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Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nose/case.py", line 197, in runTest
self.test(*self.arg)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/testing/decorators.py", line 53, in failer
result = f(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/testing/decorators.py", line 220, in do_test
'(RMS %(rms).3f)'%err)
ImageComparisonFailure: 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)
This 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.