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There seems to be an issue connecting the SIGNAL layersRemoved from QgsMapLayerRegistry.

For example, if I save this script to a file, and run it from the Linux terminal:

################################################
import unittest
from qgis.core import QgsApplication, QgsMapLayerRegistry

class SIGNALTest( unittest.TestCase ):

def setUp( self ):
        app = QgsApplication([], True)
        QgsApplication.setPrefixPath("/usr", True)
        QgsApplication.initQgis()

QgsMapLayerRegistry.instance().layersRemoved.connect( self.myFunction )

def myFunction( self, layerIds ):
        print "Called!"

def test1( self ):
        self.assertEqual(1,1)

def tearDown( self ):   
        QgsApplication.exitQgis()

if name == "__main__":
unittest.main() ################################################

I get the following result:

##########
Called!
.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 1 test in 0.119s

OK
Segmentation fault ###########

If, on the contrary, I comment out the line where the connection is set or if I use other signals such as layerRemoved or layersAdded instead of layersRemoved, I get:

###########
.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 1 test in 0.111s

OK ###########

I'm using QGIS 2.14.2 on a GNU/Linux machine.