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Author neologix
Recipients neologix, pitrou
Date 2012-04-30.08:30:38
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Message-id <1335774640.36.0.246153891142.issue14698@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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test_posix is consistently failing on the bigmem buildbot:

http://python.org/dev/buildbot/all/builders/AMD64 debian bigmem 3.x/builds/291/steps/test/logs/stdio

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ERROR: test_getgrouplist (test.test_posix.PosixTester)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/var/tmpfs/martin.vonloewis/3.x.loewis-parallel2/build/Lib/test/test_posix.py", line 633, in test_getgrouplist
    set(posix.getgrouplist(pwd.getpwuid(os.getuid())[0],
KeyError: 'getpwuid(): uid not found: 5025'

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ERROR: test_initgroups (test.test_posix.PosixTester)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/var/tmpfs/martin.vonloewis/3.x.loewis-parallel2/build/Lib/test/test_posix.py", line 111, in test_initgroups
    name = pwd.getpwuid(posix.getuid()).pw_name
KeyError: 'getpwuid(): uid not found: 5025'
"""

I assume that's because the buildbot tests run with a UID without any corresponding pwd entry (which is legit).
The attached patch should fix thoe failures, by making the tests more robust.
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2012-04-30 08:30:40neologixsetrecipients: + neologix, pitrou
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