bug#21410: Environment containers

[Mathieu Lirzin]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

>
>> FAIL: tests/guix-environment-container
>> ======================================
>>
>> + set -e
>> + guix environment --version
>> guix environment (GNU Guix) 0.9.0
>> Copyright (C) 2015 the Guix authors
>> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
>> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
>> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
>> + tmpdir=t-guix-environment-29930
>> + trap 'rm -r "$tmpdir"' EXIT
>> + mkdir t-guix-environment-29930
>> + guix environment --container --ad-hoc --bootstrap guile-bootstrap -- guile 
>> -c '(exit 42)'
>> guix environment: error: cannot create container: unprivileged user cannot 
>> create user namespaces
>> guix environment: error: please set 
>> /proc/sys/kernel/unprivileged_userns_clone to "1"
>
> Oh I see, that part fell through the cracks.
>
> Could you confirm that the test is skipped with the attached patch?

this test was failing on my system too, and it is skipped successfully
with this patch.

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Mathieu Lirzin