irods: Tests are failing with `RE_UNABLE_TO_READ_SESSION_VAR`

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• 4-3-stable

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Bug Report

iRODS Version, OS and Version

main/4-3-stable (haven’t seen this in 4-2-stable)

What did you try to do?

Run the test suite

Expected behavior

Consistently passing/failing tests

Observed behavior (including steps to reproduce, if applicable)

Tests which should be passing are failing, but only sometimes. This is the common thread between all of the spurious failures:

 --- IrodsSession: icommand executed by [rods#tempZone] [iadmin mkuser otherrods rodsadmin] --- 
Assert Command: iadmin mkuser otherrods rodsadmin
Expecting EMPTY: ['']
  stdout:
    | Level 0: DEBUG: error: unable to read session variable $rodsZoneProxy.
    | line 23, col 27, rule base core
    |   acCreateCollByAdmin("/"++$rodsZoneProxy++"/home", $otherUserName);
    |                            ^
    | 
    | ==========
    | error: unable to read session variable $otherUserName.
    | line 13, col 4, rule base core
    |  ON($otherUserName == "anonymous") {
    |     ^
    | 
    | 
  stderr:
    | remote addresses: 172.23.0.6 ERROR: rcGeneralAdmin failed with error -1213000 RE_UNABLE_TO_READ_SESSION_VAR 
Unexpected output on stderr

FAILED TESTING ASSERTION

Please investigate.