Re: LFS 12.4: 8.59. Coreutils-9.7 test suite fails: tests/chroot/chroot-credentials.sh

"\"Random Penguin\"" ([email protected] via lfs-support Mailing List) <[email protected]> Tue, 25 Nov 2025 11:53:36 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.linux.lfs.support
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>>>> I can't really see what the problem is, but you might want to compare
>>>>> your
>>>>> results with ours at
>>>>>
>>>>>
https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/build-logs/12.4/i7-14700K/test-logs/857-coreutils-9.7
>>>>>
>>>>> -- Bruce
>>>>
>>>> I checked the results of both machines, however both of them pass without
>>>> any
>>>> error and no further elaboration. Could someone maybe send their test log
>>>> to see what should be happening?
>>>
>>> What should be happening is that the tests succeed:
>>> [...]
>>> PASS: tests/chroot/chroot-credentials.sh
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> If they don't, it's likely that you made a mistake somewhere. I suggest
>>> that you re-check your every step after
>>>
>>> "Now the test suite is ready to be run. First, run the tests that are
>>> meant to be run as user root: [...]"
>>>
>>> Rainer
>>
>> Running from /sources/coreutils-9.7 with root user:
>> "make NON_ROOT_USERNAME=tester check-root"
>>
>> It's literally the first test command that fails. And I typed it twice, one
>> for with the i18n patch and one for without, so there's no mistyping
>> happening.
>
>It's generally safer (and faster) to copy/paste the commands instead of
> typing. Perhaps you've made a mistake earlier in that chapter? If not,
> I don't know what went wrong. The i18n-patch did not cause any problems
> for me and there should be no FAILS:
>
> grep -E 'FAIL|XFAIL' coreutils-9.7.log-2025-06-05
> # XFAIL: 0
> # FAIL: 0
> # XFAIL: 0
> # FAIL: 0
> # XFAIL: 0
> # FAIL: 0
> # XFAIL: 0
> # FAIL: 0
> # XFAIL: 0
> # FAIL: 0
> # XFAIL: 0
> # FAIL: 0
>
> Rainer

For one, I am doing the chroot on a literal Arch Linux installation media
because the only Linux machine I have access to is a  homebrewed Nintendo
Switch on kernel 4.9, so no way that's happening.
For two, what could be the possible mistakes? What libraries/binaries could've
raised that error? Should I recompile it?

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