Bugs item #1465646, was opened at 2006-04-06 12:57 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by loewis You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1465646&group_id=5470
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Richard Townsend (rptownsend) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: test_grp & test_pwd fail Initial Comment: test_grp and test_pwd fail on PC running Red Hat Enterprise Edition V4.2 with Python-2.4.3 and Python- 2.5a1. See attached file for test error messages. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) Date: 2006-04-07 12:13 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=21627 We should drop the tests in a selective manner. In this case, if -2 is in the password/group file, we should be able to find it: somebody might want to search by a gid value entered from a user, and that ought to work as well. rptownsend: could you investigate in more detail what's going on, on your system? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Walter Dörwald (doerwalter) Date: 2006-04-06 20:34 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=89016 I'm prepared to throw out the fancy tests from test_pwd.py and test_grp.py. They don't buy us much anyway and basically test more the OS then the Python modules. (For related bugs see #779218, #962226 and #775964.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Matt Fleming (splitscreen) Date: 2006-04-06 17:48 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1126061 AFAIK getgrgid() doesn't handle negative integers very well (I can't even add a group with a negative gid on my NetBSD machine). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Townsend (rptownsend) Date: 2006-04-06 16:42 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=200117 The test workstation is getting its password and group info from NIS. The test workstation is running Red Hat Linux, but the NIS server is running HPUX 11i. I believe these are the entries causing the errors: lancaster:/etc > ypcat passwd | grep '-' nobody:*:-2:-2::/: lancaster:/etc > ypcat group | grep '-' nogroup:*:-2: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Georg Brandl (gbrandl) Date: 2006-04-06 15:01 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=849994 Can you post the relevant part of /etc/passwd and /etc/group? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1465646&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
