From the log on Gentoo bug #298601: tp-glib-ERROR **: Unable to connect to starter bus aborting... /bin/sh: line 5: 29978 Aborted G_DEBUG=fatal-warnings,fatal-criticals ${dir}$tst FAIL: test-handles This is because test-handles instantiates a TpDynamicHandleRepo, which makes a connection to the bus.
Took a quick look at fixing this up so that the (non-twisted) tests run under with-session-bus.sh. Got into a mess of recursive make dependencies trying to move some of tests/twisted/tools into tests/tools to do that. Should be trivial for someone less sleepy. :)
Fixed by http://git.collabora.co.uk/?p=telepathy-gabble.git;a=commitdiff;h=b52457c which will be in Gabble 0.9.10.
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