Re: test failure in make check-root

[hggdh]

On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:38:55 +0100
Kamil Dudka <address@hidden> 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
> 
> 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!
> 
> Kamil

Oh, it happened again faster than I expected... I was suspecting of
something environmental, since I could get the failure if I ran it by
hand, or an equivalent shell script. But, while I was writing this
reply I went and tried to run it by hand again:


address@hidden:/usr/src/buildd/coreutils/coreutils-git $ ls > a && echo 1 && 
sudo src/ginstall -Cv a b && echo 2 && sudo src/ginstall -Cv -g2 a b && echo 3 
&& sudo src/ginstall -Cv a b && echo 4 && sudo src/ginstall -Cv a b 
1
[sudo] password for hggdh: 
`a' -> `b'
2
removed `b'
`a' -> `b'
3
removed `b'
`a' -> `b'
4
removed `b'
`a' -> `b'
address@hidden:/usr/src/buildd/coreutils/coreutils-git $ 

Now, *that* was a surprise. Time to dig in. Updating my environment
data:

address@hidden:/usr/src/buildd/coreutils/coreutils-git $ apt-cache policy libc6 
bash ksh
libc6:
  Installed: 2.9-4ubuntu3
  Candidate: 2.9-4ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 2.9-4ubuntu3 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
bash:
  Installed: 3.2-5ubuntu1
  Candidate: 3.2-5ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 3.2-5ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
ksh:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 93s+20080202-1
  Version table:
     93s+20080202-1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Packages
address@hidden:/usr/src/buildd/coreutils/coreutils-git $ uname -a
Linux xango2 2.6.29-020629-generic #020629 SMP Tue Mar 24 11:23:53 UTC 2009 
x86_64 GNU/Linux
address@hidden:/usr/src/buildd/coreutils/coreutils-git $ 

I did build a Jaunty server image under VirtualBox; I will git clone
and build it there, and on an (older) Ubuntu Hardy image I found backed up.

..hggdh..

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