Re: coreutils.593 make check TEST failed

[Jim Meyering]

gmick beale <address@hidden> wrote:
> Making check in chown
> make  check-TESTS
> FAIL: basic
> PASS: deref
> PASS: separator
> ======================================
> 1 of 3 tests failed
> Please report to address@hidden

When you run the tests, be sure to use -k: `make -k check',
otherwise, make stops on the first failure.

To get more detail on the above failing test, you can do this:

  env VERBOSE=yes DEBUG=yes make check -C tests/chown TESTS=basic > log 2>&1

the results will be in the file named log.

> make[3]: *** [check-TESTS] Error 1
> make[2]: *** [check-am] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [check-recursive] Error 1
> make: *** [check-recursive] Error 1
> [The-Sandbox:~/coreutilsbuild/coreutils-5.93] mick%  sudo make check-root
> cd tests && make check-root
> cd chown && make check TESTS=basic
> make  check-TESTS
> FAIL: basic

Thanks for the report -- and especially for running the root tests.
>From the amount of feedback we see on the list, few people do that.

I've found that sometimes it is necessary to run
the root-tests with NON_ROOT_USERNAME=$USER.  E.g.,

  sudo env NON_ROOT_USERNAME=$USER make check-root

If it still fails, please rerun like this
and send the resulting output to the list.

  sudo env DEBUG=yes VERBOSE=yes NON_ROOT_USERNAME=$USER make check-root