Dylan Jeffers <sapient...@openmailbox.org> skribis: > On Sat, 30 Jul 2016 15:07:25 +0200 > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:
[...] >> > test-name: clone >> > location: /home/sapientech/Dev/guix/guix_wip/tests/syscalls.scm:109 >> > source: >> > + (test-assert >> > + "clone" >> > + (match (clone (logior CLONE_NEWUSER SIGCHLD)) >> > + (0 (primitive-exit 42)) >> > + (pid (and (not (equal? >> > + (readlink (user-namespace pid)) >> > + (readlink (user-namespace (getpid))))) >> > + (match (waitpid pid) >> > + ((_ . status) (= 42 (status:exit-val >> > status)))))))) actual-value: #f >> > actual-error: >> > + (system-error >> > + "clone" >> > + "~d: ~A" >> > + (268435473 "Operation not permitted") >> > + (1)) >> > result: FAIL >> >> What does “uname -srv” report on this machine? It seems this kernel >> does not support namespaces. >> >> Thanks, >> Ludo’. > > Hi Ludo, > > Thanks for getting back so quick. > Output of uname -srv: Linux 4.6.4-gnu-201607192040-1-grsec #1 SMP > PREEMPT Wed Jul 20 15:37:34 UYT 2016 These tests are skipped when user namespaces are not supported, as per this condition: (define perform-container-tests? (and (user-namespace-supported?) (unprivileged-user-namespace-supported?))) … which is true iff (1) /proc/self/ns/user exists, and (2) /proc/sys/kernel/unprivileged_userns_clone does not exist, or it exists and contains “1”. Do these files exist on this system? Maybe we should just ignore EPERM from (clone CLONE_NEWUSER) but it’s annoying to annotate every single test that uses it. >From a user viewpoint, this test failure simply mean that you cannot use the ‘--container’ option ‘guix environment’ on your system. Thanks, Ludo’.