Cone search test failure for 2.0rc1 on py2.7

[stargaser]

Here is a failure in a python=2.7 conda environment on 2.0rc1:

1 failed, 12472 passed, 234 skipped, 69 xfailed, 1 xpassed, 43908 warnings in 454.52 seconds

=================================== FAILURES ===================================
_______________ TestConeSearchValidation.test_validation[False] ________________

self = <astropy.vo.validator.tests.test_validate.TestConeSearchValidation object at 0x1223e1d50>
parallel = False

    @pytest.mark.parametrize(('parallel'), [True, False])
    def test_validation(self, parallel):
        if os.path.exists(self.out_dir):
            shutil.rmtree(self.out_dir)

        validate.check_conesearch_sites(
            destdir=self.out_dir, parallel=parallel, url_list=None)

        for val in self.filenames.values():
            self._compare_catnames(get_pkg_data_filename(
                os.path.join(self.datadir, val)),
>               os.path.join(self.out_dir, val))

anaconda/envs/astropytstpy2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/astropy/vo/validator/tests/test_validate.py:77:
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fname1 = '/Users/shupe/anaconda/envs/astropytstpy2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/astropy/vo/validator/tests/data/conesearch_warn.json'
fname2 = '/var/folders/t6/zv_75s3156780r5wyknqyb8w0000gn/T/tmpDMvT4v/conesearch_warn.json'

    @staticmethod
    def _compare_catnames(fname1, fname2):
        db1 = VOSDatabase.from_json(fname1)
        db2 = VOSDatabase.from_json(fname2)
>       assert db1.list_catalogs() == db2.list_catalogs()
E       AssertionError: assert [] == ['The USNO-A2.0 Catalogue (Monet+ 1998) 1']
E         Right contains more items, first extra item: 'The USNO-A2.0 Catalogue (Monet+ 1998) 1'
E         Use -v to get the full diff

anaconda/envs/astropytstpy2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/astropy/vo/validator/tests/test_validate.py:64: AssertionError
----------------------------- Captured stdout call -----------------------------
INFO: good: 0 catalog(s) [astropy.vo.validator.validate]
INFO: warn: 1 catalog(s) [astropy.vo.validator.validate]
INFO: excp: 0 catalog(s) [astropy.vo.validator.validate]
INFO: nerr: 0 catalog(s) [astropy.vo.validator.validate]
INFO: total: 1 out of 1 catalog(s) [astropy.vo.validator.validate]
INFO: check_conesearch_sites took 0.698978185654 s on AVERAGE for 1 call(s). [astropy.utils.timer]

Test setup details (OS X 10.12.5):

python -c "import astropy; astropy.test(remote_data=True)"
============================= test session starts ==============================
platform darwin -- Python 2.7.13, pytest-3.1.2, py-1.4.34, pluggy-0.4.0

Running tests with Astropy version 2.0rc1.
Running tests in anaconda/envs/astropytstpy2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/astropy.

Date: 2017-06-28T09:17:07

Platform: Darwin-16.6.0-x86_64-i386-64bit

Executable: /Users/shupe/anaconda/envs/astropytstpy2/bin/python

Full Python Version:
2.7.13 |Continuum Analytics, Inc.| (default, Dec 20 2016, 23:05:08)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 6.0 (clang-600.0.57)]

encodings: sys: ascii, locale: UTF-8, filesystem: utf-8, unicode bits: 15
byteorder: little
float info: dig: 15, mant_dig: 15

Numpy: 1.13.0
Scipy: 0.19.0
Matplotlib: 2.0.2
h5py: 2.7.0
Pandas: not available
Cython: 0.25.2
Using Astropy options: remote_data: any.

[pllim]

As far as the RC is concerned, you can ignore this failure. Cone Search is deprecated in #5904 for v2 and its tests (including this one) will be removed in v3.

But if you actually uses Cone Search and are concerned, please open an issue at Astroquery.