Source: grub2 Version: 2.12-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch Dear Maintainer,
Hello,
while rebuilding grub, I encountered two issues from the test suite.
Perhaps I've already reported them but cannot find any traces of that.
One is, things go downhill in util/grub-shell if an environment
variable "debug" is set, but it seems this was fixed in newer versions
of grub (no longer found with 2.12-1, currently in testing).
Still open however: There is a limitation in cpio, it cannot deal with
an user ID above 2^21-1. If the build is done using a bigger ID, it
will just fail:
FAIL: cpio_test
===============
(...)
cpio: ./: value uid 3123456 out of allowed range 0..2097151
cpio: sdir/: value uid 3123456 out of allowed range 0..2097151
cpio: sdir/2.img: value uid 3123456 out of allowed range 0..2097151
(...)
Fix, as attached: Probe for that situation, and exit gracefully.
Another solution might be using fakeroot then.
Kind regards,
Christoph
-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
--- a/tests/cpio_test.in
+++ b/tests/cpio_test.in
@@ -7,6 +7,12 @@
exit 99
fi
+uid="$(id -u)"
+if [ "$uid" -gt 2097151 ]; then
+ echo "User ID $uid is too big to run cpio tests"
+ exit 77
+fi
+
"@builddir@/grub-fs-tester" cpio_bin
"@builddir@/grub-fs-tester" cpio_odc
"@builddir@/grub-fs-tester" cpio_newc
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