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[bug#36692] test failures
From: |
Robert Vollmert |
Subject: |
[bug#36692] test failures |
Date: |
Tue, 16 Jul 2019 21:00:31 +0200 |
> On 16. Jul 2019, at 18:28, Marius Bakke <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Robert Vollmert <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I was able to run both tests from the build directory in /tmp,
>> and they both passed fine. Also they both involve user ids, I
>> suspect those might differ in the build container?
>>
>> main = do
>> void $ forkIO $ forever $ getGroupEntryForID 0
>> void $ forkIO $ forever $ getGroupEntryForID 0
>> threadDelay (3*1000*1000)
>>
>> main = do
>> root <- getUserEntryForName "root"
>> putStrLn (ue2String root)
>> root' <- getUserEntryForID (userID root)
>> putStrLn (ue2String root')
>> if homeDirectory root == homeDirectory root' &&
>> userShell root == userShell root'
>> then putStrLn "OK"
>> else putStrLn “Mismatch"
>
> The only reliable user ID available in the build container is 'nobody'
> with UID and GID 65534 and the (see nix/libstore/build.cc:1862).
>
> You can likely patch these tests to refer to that instead.
I chose to skip them instead — specializing them to nobody/65534 doesn’t
seem helpful in the end.