appium: NODE: ANDROID: Sample code is passing false positive, doesn't run all commands, and hangs up

The problem

I copied the most minimalistic sample code from the example repo:

• android simple test suite
• appium servers
• caps
• logging
• setup

when I run mocha test/e2e-native/home.spec.js, I get false positive, only one command is running, and the test hangs up and times out (see attached gists)

Environment

• Appium version (or git revision) that exhibits the issue: 1.6.2
• Last Appium version that did not exhibit the issue (if applicable):
• Desktop OS/version used to run Appium: Ubuntu 16.04
• Node.js version (unless using Appium.app|exe): 6.9.1
• Mobile platform/version under test: android emulator 6.0
• Real device or emulator/simulator: emulator
• Appium CLI or Appium.app|exe: cli

Details

see gists

Link to Appium logs

gist

Code To Reproduce Issue [ Good To Have ]

I cloned the sample repo and ran the node simple-android test case, ran into the same problem