diff -Naurp nova-2012.2.orig/nova/tests/rpc/test_kombu.py nova-2012.2/nova/tests/rpc/test_kombu.py
--- nova-2012.2.orig/nova/tests/rpc/test_kombu.py	2012-05-03 03:02:36.000000000 -0400
+++ nova-2012.2/nova/tests/rpc/test_kombu.py	2012-05-03 10:24:15.693557103 -0400
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 Unit Tests for remote procedure calls using kombu
 """
 
+from nose import SkipTest
 from nova import context
 from nova import exception
 from nova import flags
@@ -66,6 +67,12 @@ class RpcKombuTestCase(common.BaseRpcAMQ
             self.rpc = None
         super(RpcKombuTestCase, self).setUp()
 
+        # Skip tests if we are running in an ubuntu buildd
+        try:
+            fh = open('/dev/log')
+        except IOError as e:
+            raise SkipTest
+
     def tearDown(self):
         if kombu:
             impl_kombu.cleanup()
