GNU bug report logs - #25476
pivot-root test fails on Ubuntu 16.04

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Paul Garlick <pgarlick <at> tourbillion-technology.com>

Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 17:27:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #52 received at 25476-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 25476-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bug#25476 Hunting: pivot-root test fails on foreign distro
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 14:39:55 +0100

Hi Ludo,

On Tue, 11 Feb 2020 at 12:35, Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> wrote:
> zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com> skribis:
>
> > This bug seems fixed by  a1a8b7f2e20513a3ad968e74e7ec52546404e3c6 as
> > explained here [1].
>
> Well this commit fixes one of the issues discussed here (the utmpx test
> failure), but not the ‘pivot-root’ test failure itself.

D'oh!
I missed this part.


> However, it seems that the ‘pivot-root’ test is now skipped in practice
> on most systems so…

Ok so let if the bug show up again. :-)


> Turns out I found how to make it work again in commit
> 1deca767be1b84b96633e317f3fcdd5165f95df3.  Let me know if anything’s
> amiss.

Cool!

Thank you for the fix.


Cheers,
simon
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