From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Riesen Subject: Re: "make test" works again (sort-of) on cygwin. Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 22:26:37 +0200 Message-ID: <20080703202637.GC3546@steel.home> References: <486D0FFC.5090308@ramsay1.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: Alex Riesen Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: GIT Mailing-list , Junio C Hamano To: Ramsay Jones X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jul 03 22:27:47 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KEVP1-0008Ho-Gc for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:27:39 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752425AbYGCU0k (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jul 2008 16:26:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752303AbYGCU0k (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jul 2008 16:26:40 -0400 Received: from mo-p07-ob.rzone.de ([81.169.146.189]:44243 "EHLO mo-p07-ob.rzone.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752294AbYGCU0j (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jul 2008 16:26:39 -0400 X-RZG-CLASS-ID: mo07 X-RZG-AUTH: :YSxENQjhO8RswxTRIGdg20xf4EDTSQ== Received: from tigra.home (Fae7d.f.strato-dslnet.de [195.4.174.125]) by post.webmailer.de (mrclete mo28) (RZmta 16.45) with ESMTP id 3066d4k63I1sRF ; Thu, 3 Jul 2008 22:26:37 +0200 (MEST) (envelope-from: ) Received: from steel.home (steel.home [192.168.1.2]) by tigra.home (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7C4B277BD; Thu, 3 Jul 2008 22:26:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: by steel.home (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B585D56D27; Thu, 3 Jul 2008 22:26:37 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <486D0FFC.5090308@ramsay1.demon.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Ramsay Jones, Thu, Jul 03, 2008 19:44:28 +0200: > I spent many hours (not recently) trying to determine the reason for > the crash, but it seems to be essentially "random gremlins" :-) > However, since I mostly use Linux, I've not been very motivated to > find a solution, particularly when git works fine (touch wood) when > used for real work. (i.e. only "make test" crashes my machine). > Also, as Alex and Shawn have not reported problems, I have assumed > it is something specific to my environment. Dunno. I haven't tried to run the test on XP recently (it is a production workstation, after all), but the last time I risked it was locked up hard. Win2k runs (and I even can work, well, browse, on it) > Anyhow, the "sort-of" in the subject line, relates to the fact that > I am seeing some test failures. In particular, all tests in > t0004-unwritable.sh and tests 21->24 in t3700-add.sh. All of these > tests involve chmod/permissions ... Don't run "make test" as root (or "backup operator" on windows). OTOH, a windows machine is almost useless, unless you're a member of local administrators group (which includes "backup" permission).