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Subject: Re: Environment containers
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 16:56:40 +0100
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To: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>, 21410@debbugs.gnu.org

"Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu> skribis:

> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com> wrot=
e:
>> On 28/10/2015, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>>> Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com> skribis:
>>>
>>>> On 27/10/2015, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>>> Do you still experience the test failures mentioned in that report?  =
If
>>>>> not, could you email 21410@debbugs.gnu.org, specifying which commit
>>>>> works for you?
>>>>>
>>>> Yes, there are 4 tests still failing with the latest master branch
>>>> without unprivileged container.
>>>
>>> Which tests?  Does tests/container.scm pass?
>>>
>> It doesn't pass if I run as unprivileged user. It passes if I run as
>> root. I will be mailing the test logs on another mail.
>
> This is because Debian doesn't let unprivileged users create user
> namespaces without explicitly overriding some configuration.

How could we determine whether this restriction is in place?  That would
allow us to skip the test on these systems.

Ludo=E2=80=99.