Hypothesis: what's happening is some old channel_created event from a previous test is getting overtaken by the rabbit_tests_event_receiver starting up, and is thus getting through to us. Solution: ignore events with the wrong pid until we get the one we want.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/rabbit_tests.erl b/src/rabbit_tests.erl
index bbca55b433..cd5d9be0cc 100644
--- a/src/rabbit_tests.erl
+++ b/src/rabbit_tests.erl
@@ -1471,7 +1471,11 @@ expect_events(Pid, Type) ->
     expect_event(Pid, Type).
 
 expect_event(Pid, Type) ->
-    receive #event{type = Type, props = Props} -> Pid = pget(pid, Props)
+    receive #event{type = Type, props = Props} ->
+            case pget(pid, Props) of
+                Pid -> ok;
+                _   -> expect_event(Pid, Type)
+            end
     after 1000 -> throw({failed_to_receive_event, Type})
     end.