Re: make test failed

[Daniel Herzog]

hi paul

THis machine never had a user except root (yet). It is kind of newly
installed...maybe that's the (simple) cause of the trouble?
It might be that, because of this, there are lots of udev things
un/mis-configured which i didnt recognize yet.
if so, i'm sorry to report that at all...now it sounds kind of silly to
me :-) didnt think of that before...hm.

Some output
"# ls -l /dev/null
crw-rw----  1 root root 1, 3 Oct 24  2004 /dev/null"

I'm sorry, i run out of time...ciao ;-)



Paul Eggert schrieb:
> Daniel Herzog <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> 
>>well - I did a "echo "somestuffhere" > /dev/null" right after I saw the
>>error message which worked perfectly fine - and i guess i would see a
>>whole lot more errors if it wasnt present at all.
> 
> 
> Not if you were running the test as root, and if /dev/null were
> accessible to root and not to you.  What is the output of the
> command "ls -l /dev/null"?
> 
> 
>>What does the code you gave me do? / Which information do you need?
> 
> 
> The code attempts to mimic the part of the test that is failing.
> It invokes the 'id' command and redirect the output to /dev/null.
> Please invoke these commands in something as near to the test environment
> as you can.  If they succeed, but the test fails, we need to find
> out what differs between the test environment and your shell.
> 
> Please use /bin/sh to test these commands (since I assume /bin/sh is
> being used to run the tests).
> 
> groups=${FETISH_GROUPS-`(id -nG || /usr/xpg4/bin/id -nG) 2>/dev/null`}
> echo "$groups"
> 
>