It seems I was debugging something similar with rhuddie the other day (without solution). In case it's useful I'll mention it here:
What I observed was the test in question would stop then start the maliit-server, then the test immediately clicked on a text input and failed as the OSK never came up on screen within the time limit (presumably due to the process still starting up to the point it could accept the input etc.). At this point onwards any attempt to use the non-osk keyboard would fail. If we point a sleep between starting and trying to use the OSK everything worked fine. Perhaps there is some interaction here which is stopping the text field to actually get focus? Or perhaps attempting to interact with the OSK before it's ready is confusing something? As mentioned, I was unable to determine the actual issue, perhaps this information might help though. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to unity8 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1468029 Title: unity8 crash breaking autopilot tests entering text with OSK Status in unity8 package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: When running the autopilot tests for ubuntu-system-settings, at some point it fails to enter text using the OSK. It works fine for smaller subsets of the tests, but not a full run. It simply stops entering text with keyboard.write. Once it gets in this state, it will continue to fail even for single tests until unity8 is restarted. During the test run, there is a unity8 crash file generated. I wasn't able to create a bug report for the problem directly from the OOPS on errors.ubuntu.com, you can find it at https://errors.ubuntu.com/oops/c4124284-1999-11e5-8fcb-fa163e75317b My device: current build number: 234 device name: mako channel: ubuntu-touch/devel-proposed/ubuntu last update: 2015-06-23 00:04:08 version version: 234 version ubuntu: 20150623 version device: 20150529.1 version custom: 20150623 @osomon has seen the same problem while running the webbrowser-app tests on krillin with vivid-proposed. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity8/+bug/1468029/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

