On Thu, 13 Feb 2014, Duncan Roe <[email protected]> wrote:
> Could it be that chown is trying to do the user name to user number
> conversion on the local system but the target user does not exist there?

No, it's getting EACCESS from the system call.  Here's some strace output:

fchownat(AT_FDCWD, "test", 111, -1, 0)  = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)

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