bug#21410: Environment containers

[Thompson, David]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Alex Vong <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 28/10/2015, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Alex Vong <address@hidden> skribis:
>>
>>> On 27/10/2015, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>>> Do you still experience the test failures mentioned in that report?  If
>>>> not, could you email address@hidden, specifying which commit
>>>> works for you?
>>>>
>>> Yes, there are 4 tests still failing with the latest master branch
>>> without unprivileged container.
>>
>> Which tests?  Does tests/container.scm pass?
>>
> It doesn't pass if I run as unprivileged user. It passes if I run as
> root. I will be mailing the test logs on another mail.

This is because Debian doesn't let unprivileged users create user
namespaces without explicitly overriding some configuration.

- Dave