view.viewmergetests.ViewMergingTests.test_stats_error test fails due to referencing invalid object

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ERROR: test_stats_error (view.viewmergetests.ViewMergingTests)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
File "pytests/view/viewmergetests.py", line 48, in setUp
self.fail(ex)
AssertionError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'vbuckets'

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Ran 1 test in 8.119s

FAILED (errors=1)
summary so far suite view.viewmergetests.ViewMergingTests , pass 0 , fail 1
failures so far...
view.viewmergetests.ViewMergingTests.test_stats_error
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view.viewmergetests.ViewMergingTests.test_stats_error fail