On 2015-01-14 19.37, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@xxxxxx> writes: > >> t5539 doesn't seem to work as expected under Mac OX X 10.6 >> (10.9 is OK) >> >> I am not root. >> Are there any ideas how we can improve the situation, or how to debug ? > > As to "how to debug", the first step is to grep for that message and > notice that it comes from here: > > t/lib-httpd.sh: > > if ! test_have_prereq SANITY; then > test_skip_or_die $GIT_TEST_HTTPD \ > "Cannot run httpd tests as root" > fi > > and then grep for SANITY to find: > > t/test-lib.sh: > > # When the tests are run as root, permission tests will report that > # things are writable when they shouldn't be. > test -w / || test_set_prereq SANITY > > It appears that the check in lib-httpd.sh thinks you lack SANITY; is > the root directory of your system somehow writable by you? > Yes, that was a good hint, thanks. The "problem" is that I am Admin on one machine, but not on the other, and / was writable for the admin group for some reasons, and only on this machine. But, why does e.g. t0004 behave more gracefully (and skips) and t5539 just dies ? ./t0004-unwritable.sh ok 1 - setup ok 2 # skip write-tree should notice unwritable repository (missing SANITY of POSIXPERM,SANITY) (And after changing the group of / t5539 passes, and so does t0004) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html