diff -r 87976d72fd5c Lib/test/test_pathlib.py
--- a/Lib/test/test_pathlib.py	Tue Jan 06 11:51:06 2015 +0100
+++ b/Lib/test/test_pathlib.py	Tue Jan 06 12:16:41 2015 +0100
@@ -1983,7 +1983,7 @@ class PosixPathTest(_BasePathTest, unitt
         for pwdent in pwd.getpwall():
             othername = pwdent.pw_name
             otherhome = pwdent.pw_dir.rstrip('/')
-            if othername != username:
+            if othername != username and otherhome:
                 break
 
         p1 = P('~/Documents')