Re: test failure in make check-root

[Sven Joachim]

On 2009-03-26 16:38 +0100, Kamil Dudka wrote:

> On Thursday 26 of March 2009 16:20:15 Sven Joachim wrote:
>> A test in make check-root fails for me.  Since I usually don't make
>> check-root, it might have been around for a while.  Full log follows:
>
> The failure has been already reported:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-03/msg00069.html

Ah, I don't follow this list closely, so I missed that.

> But I am not able to reproduce it. Could you attach more information about
> the system, configuration, etc.? Anything what is missing in the thread above 
> would be quite helpful. Thanks in advance!

Here's some information:

,----
| % uname -a
| Linux turtle 2.6.28.9-amd64 #1 SMP Tue Mar 24 07:51:14 CET 2009 x86_64 
GNU/Linux
| % dpkg --print-architecure
| i386
| % dpkg -l libc6 | grep ^ii
| ii  libc6              2.9-6                     GNU C Library: Shared 
libraries
| % echo $SHELL
| /bin/zsh
| % readlink -f /bin/sh
| /bin/dash
| % mount | grep /usr/local
| /dev/sda7 on /usr/local type ext4 (rw,relatime)
| % LANG=C ls -ld /usr/local/src/coreutils-7.1.81-9b653
| drwxr-sr-x 13 sven src 4096 Mar 26 15:54 /usr/local/src/coreutils-7.1.81-9b653
`----

That /usr/local/src is setgid src seems to be the crux.  After removing
the setgid bit with "chmod -R -s /usr/local/src/coreutils-7.1.81-9b653",
"make check-root" succeeds.

Sven