tags 9394 + moreinfo thanks Jim Meyering wrote: > Toralf Förster wrote: >> Jim Meyering wrote at 09:59:49 >>> Thanks for the report, but why are you using coreutils-8.7? >> Well - for the sys packages I trust the gentoo devs ... >>> The latest is 8.12, with 8.13 due this week or next. >>> >>> Can you test with coreutils-8.12 instead? >> Of course, the mkdirat test case failed - the complete build log is attached > > Thanks. I looked at one of the failures: > >> FAIL: dd/skip-seek-past-dev (exit: 1) >> ===================================== >> ... >> + env >> SANDBOX_WRITE=:/dev/console:/dev/fd:/dev/full:/dev/null:/dev/pts/:/dev/pty:/dev/shm:/dev/stderr:/dev/stdout:/dev/tts:/dev/tty:/dev/vc/:/dev/zero:/proc/self/fd:/tmp/:/usr/lib32/cf:/usr/lib32/conftest:/usr/lib64/cf:/usr/lib64/conftest:/usr/lib/cf:/usr/lib/conftest:/usr/tmp/cf:/usr/tmp/conftest:/var/tmp:/var/tmp/:/var/tmp/ccache:/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/coreutils-8.12/homedir/.bash_history:/dev/full:/dev/root >> timeout 10 dd bs=1 seek=41047646721 count=0 status=noxfer >> ./dd/skip-seek-past-dev: line 51: /dev/root: Permission denied > > The above looks suspiciously like someone has modified this test script. > In particular, the "env SANDBOX_WRITE=..." bit is not a part of the > distributed script. It seems to be something gentoo specific. > >> + test 1 = 1 >> + echo 'dd: `standard output'\'': cannot seek: Invalid argument >> 0+0 records in >> 0+0 records out' >> + compare err_ok err >> + diff -u err_ok err >> --- err_ok 2011-08-29 10:26:21.000000000 +0200 >> +++ err 2011-08-29 10:26:21.000000000 +0200 >> @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ >> -dd: `standard output': cannot seek: Invalid argument >> +dd: `standard input': cannot skip: Invalid argument > > Considering here we're expecting a seek diagnostic about stdout, > yet getting a skip diagnostic about stdin makes me think > the two tests have somehow been mixed up in your modified version. > > I've just confirmed that this root-only test passes on my F15-based desktop.
It's been two weeks. Are there any test failures with *unmodified* coreutils-8.13 on your system?
