fix test that fails locally but is excluded on the CI servers

cate/webapi/wsmanag.py

@@ -268,9 +268,10 @@ def _invoke_method(self):
                     msg = progress.get('message')
 
                     if not started:
-                        if total is not None or total is not None:
-                            self.monitor.start(label, total_work=total)
-                            started = True
+                        if label is None:
+                            label = "start"
+                        self.monitor.start(label, total_work=total)
+                        started = True
 
                     if started:
                         if worked:

test/core/test_wsmanag.py

@@ -130,6 +130,8 @@ def test_resource_progress(self):
                                                  dict(),
                                                  res_name='noop',
                                                  monitor=rm)
+        # the websocket clients send always progress with 'None' arguments after start
+        cleaned_records = [r for r in rm.records if len(r) < 2 or r[1] is not None]
         self.assertEquals([
             ('start', 'Computing nothing', 10),
             ('progress', 1.0, 'Step 1 of 10 doing nothing', 10),
@@ -143,7 +145,7 @@ def test_resource_progress(self):
             ('progress', 1.0, 'Step 9 of 10 doing nothing', 90),
             ('progress', 1.0, 'Step 10 of 10 doing nothing', 100),
             ('done',)
-        ], rm.records)
+        ], cleaned_records)
         self.del_base_dir(base_dir)
 
     def test_session(self):