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According to Paul Rogers on 1/24/2006 9:48 AM: >>Which version of coreutils are you using, on which platform? This >>problem in the test suite was detected and corrected between 5.3.0 >>and 5.90; the latest stable release of coreutils is 5.93. The >>framework should have skipped the test altogether if you are root, >>can write to /, or own /. How else are you allowed to change /? > > > I am building 5.2.1 as part of a LFS-6.1.1 compile from scratch. Guess it's > pretty far behind, eh? But we are admonished to stick with the versions they > supply and document, to control incompatibilities. Then it is just a test suite bug, and you can ignore the failure. You may also want to recommend to LFS that they upgrade their compile-from-scratch directions to use the latest stable coreutils, as it has fixed a number of bugs present in 5.2.1. > > The test suite is in two parts, one run as root and one as user "dummy". > Everything passes except not-owner in the "dummy" tests. I tried duplicating > the test by hand (../../src/su dummy ; touch / ; echo $?) and got a 0 return > code, no error messages. PS1 claimed I was "dummy", and I haven't found > obvious evidence dummy had root priveleges but neither entirely ruled it out. > I checked the make log I collected and found no error messages during touch > compilation. The code doesn't seem to have as many complex macros to confuse > things as some packages. I confess I don't know what to do at this point, no > obvious directions appear to me. Run "id dummy" to find out what groups it is a member of; perhaps you created dummy as a member of the group that owns /. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFD13yk84KuGfSFAYARAgVHAJ9uMt18/sLFLB6158T3shu0efi2QACdGCep 59MRQKiiNRFswWBhawsphw8= =bSm+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
