bug#8244: Test failures in coreutils 8.10

[Pádraig Brady]

On 14/03/11 17:23, Bob Proulx wrote:
> retitle 8244 Test failures in coreutils 8.10
> thanks
> 
> Thank you for the test failure report.
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> A message from Каюков Андрей was sent to the BTS but seems to have
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> Thanks to Eric Blake who noticed this and alerted me to the problem.
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>   http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=8244
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> Here is a plain text summary.  Please see the test-suite.log file
> attached to the BTS for the full 90K test log file.
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>   ==============================================
>      GNU coreutils 8.10: tests/test-suite.log   
>   ==============================================
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>   7 of 14 tests failed.  (9 tests were not run).  
> 

FAIL: cp/sparse-fiemap (exit: 1)

This one is an issue with the test already addressed upstream


FAIL: misc/chroot-credentials (exit: 1)
FAIL: misc/truncate-owned-by-other (exit: 1)
FAIL: mv/sticky-to-xpart (exit: 1)
FAIL: rm/no-give-up (exit: 1)
FAIL: touch/now-owned-by-other (exit: 1)
FAIL: cp/special-bits (exit: 1)

The above 6 are all due to the same issue,
that the "nobody" user is not allowed to execute stuff,
as demonstrated by this in one of the tests:

$ chroot --userspec=nobody:99 / whoami
chroot: failed to run command `whoami': Permission denied

This seems unusual to me.
It will help us decide if we need to skip these tests in this case,
if you could detail the credentials on your system preventing
"nobody" from executing these programs.

thanks,
Pádraig.