unix/tests/user001

[Simon Peyton Jones]

|  that your user doesn't have a valid group, which is quite odd. What
|  does the `id` command say?

simonpj at cam-05-unx:~/tmp$ id
uid=501(simonpj) gid=1001 groups=1001,27(sudo)

|  -----Original Message-----
|  From: Ben Gamari [mailto:ben at well-typed.com]
|  Sent: 08 December 2017 15:13
|  To: Simon Peyton Jones <simonpj at microsoft.com>; ghc-devs at haskell.org
|  Subject: Re: unix/tests/user001
|  
|  Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs <ghc-devs at haskell.org> writes:
|  
|  > On Linux I get this validate  failure all the time.  What should I
|  do?
|  > I've trained myself to ignore it, but that seems wrong Simon
|  >
|  > Unexpected failures:
|  >
|  >    ../libraries/unix/tests/user001.run  user001 [bad stdout]
|  (normal)
|  >
|  It sounds like your machine may be misconfigured. The test attempts to
|  lookup the entry in /etc/group corresponding to the process's group.
|  However, it appears that such an entry doesn't exist. This would imply
|  that your user doesn't have a valid group, which is quite odd. What
|  does the `id` command say?
|  
|  Cheers,
|  
|  - Ben