Re: [coreutils] testsuite failures on Fedora

[Jim Meyering]

Eric Blake wrote:
> I'm seeing the following two failures on 'make check' on a
> SELinux-enforcing Fedora 13 system:

Hi Eric,
Thanks for the report.

> FAIL: misc/runcon-no-reorder (exit: 1)
...
> -runcon: failed to create security context:
> unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023: Operation not
> supported
> +runcon: runcon may be used only on a SELinux kernel
...

> I'm not sure why that failed during the test run, since on the command
> line, I see:
>
> $ runcon unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 true -j
> $ echo $?
> 0

Odd indeed.
Is there something unusual about your partition or system?
That test does not fail for me on x86_64 Fedora 13 with SELinux
in enforcing mode.

> But since the test already maps other failures to a common message,
> perhaps all that is needed is an additional mapping if 'Operation not
> supported' results from the attempt?

Before adding a work-around it'd be good to determine
what is going wrong, especially since SELinux is implicated.

> FAIL: misc/stat-mount (exit: 1)
> ===============================
...
> + stat_mnt=/shared/home
> + test /shared = /shared/home
> + fail=1
...
> Here, the failure is that I have /home bind-mounted on /shared/home,
> and since I ran the test under /home, the mount location reported by
> df is different than the one reported by stat -c%m.  This is a new
> test, and I'm not sure what to do about the issue (whether stat needs
> fixing to deal with bind mounts, or whether the test is at fault).

If there's a reliable mechanism to determine
that there is a potentially interfering bind mount,
I'd like to skip this test.