Hi, At commit df154c05dc65025eac2d14ab45699b34c7a1c7c8 (this is on the master branch), "make check-system" fails with the following error: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- [ 1.277476] cdrom: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 [ 1.281489] sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 5 [ 1.288371] Freeing unused kernel memory: 1760K [ 1.290336] Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 18432k [ 1.295894] Freeing unused kernel memory: 2024K [ 1.299853] Freeing unused kernel memory: 252K GC Warning: pthread_getattr_np or pthread_attr_getstack failed for main thread GC Warning: Couldn't read /proc/stat Welcome, this is GNU's early boot Guile. Use '--repl' for an initrd REPL. loading kernel modules... [ 1.555136] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage [ 1.574365] usbcore: registered new interface driver uas [ 1.597116] hidraw: raw HID events driver (C) Jiri Kosina [ 1.603084] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid [ 1.606669] usbhid: USB HID core driver [ 1.670298] isci: Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller Driver - version 1.2.0 [ 1.711695] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 11 [ 1.743896] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 10 [ 1.773861] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 10 [ 1.803838] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 11 [ 1.881230] FS-Cache: Loaded [ 1.887453] 9pnet: Installing 9P2000 support [ 1.890856] 9p: Installing v9fs 9p2000 file system support [ 1.892612] FS-Cache: Netfs '9p' registered for caching configuring QEMU networking... [ 1.924277] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready [ 1.984131] tsc: Refined TSC clocksource calibration: 2400.104 MHz [ 1.989541] clocksource: tsc: mask: 0xffffffffffffffff max_cycles: 0x229899a5764, max_idle_ns: 440795258297 ns loading '/gnu/store/d61zy77kkb043byv9cirk8f7nv0srm3i-linux-vm-loader'... environment variable `PATH' set to `/gnu/store/9g41j8gn1fbzwx29cdnz0ca2lvwxixbr-qemu-minimal-2.11.1/bin:/gnu/store/7l6z1h7l7yip1kvbk1iiyi0693ghpsck-parted-3.2/sbin:/gnu/store/60xif54fvl04i7frgvl187mbq6cqa0dl-e2' error: failed to evaluate directive: (directory "/gnu/store" 0 30000) error: failed to evaluate directive: (directory "/gnu/store" 0 30000 1021) In ./gnu/build/linux-boot.scm: 524:13 6 (_) In unknown file: 5 (primitive-load "/gnu/store/d61zy77kkb043byv9cirk8f7nv0���") 4 (primitive-load "/gnu/store/a81ihaar57clfi6yk24zw439g4a���") In ice-9/eval.scm: 619:8 3 (_ #(# ("/gnu/sto���" ��) ���)) In ./gnu/build/vm.scm: 405:4 2 (make-iso9660-image _ "/gnu/store/6vgi86k60kb35lwzn7gc���" ���) In ./gnu/build/install.scm: 129:2 1 (populate-root-file-system "/gnu/store/6zfhby65bmxggbl…" ���) In ice-9/boot-9.scm: 260:13 0 (for-each # ���) In procedure chown: Operation not permitted [ 2.236175] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000000 [ 2.236175] [ 2.240162] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: init Not tainted 4.15.15-gnu #1 [ 2.240162] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.11.0-0-g63451fca13-prebuilt.qemu-project.org 04/01/2014 [ 2.240162] Call Trace: [ 2.240162] dump_stack+0x63/0x8b [ 2.240162] panic+0xe4/0x244 [ 2.240162] do_exit+0xae2/0xaf0 [ 2.240162] ? wake_up_state+0x10/0x20 [ 2.240162] do_group_exit+0x43/0xb0 [ 2.240162] SyS_exit_group+0x14/0x20 [ 2.240162] do_syscall_64+0x73/0x130 [ 2.240162] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x3d/0xa2 [ 2.240162] RIP: 0033:0x5d59c8 [ 2.240162] RSP: 002b:00007fffcbb38a98 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000e7 [ 2.240162] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00000000005d59c8 [ 2.240162] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000003c RDI: 0000000000000000 [ 2.240162] RBP: 00000000007cdc10 R08: 00000000000000e7 R09: ffffffffffffffb0 [ 2.240162] R10: 00007fb6ea4cef88 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000001 [ 2.240162] R13: 0000000000a4b9a0 R14: 0000000000000002 R15: 000000000000000a [ 2.240162] Kernel Offset: 0x15000000 from 0xffffffff81000000 (relocation range: 0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffffbfffffff) [ 2.240162] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000000 [ 2.240162] --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- The process hangs at this point. I ended it by pressing Control+C. Make did not report which test(s) failed. I've attached the full log - it's 1.2M compressed, and 28M uncompressed. -- Chris