sudo make check fails in opensuse leap 42.2

[danielhb]

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FAIL: test_swupdateprogress (test_host.HostTests)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test_host.py", line 187, in test_swupdateprogress
    self.assertIn('*', task['message'].rstrip('\n'))
AssertionError: '*' not found in u'The request is being processing.'

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Ran 59 tests in 17.443s

FAILED (failures=1, skipped=1)