tag 16532 + moreinfo thanks On 01/23/2014 07:41 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote: > Hello,
welcome back! > Testing the latest coreutils (v8.22.16-be97f) on an old Ubuntu server, > results in a test failure "tests/chown/separator" (log + strace below). > $ strace ../src/chown 34574:users . 2>&1 | grep -A 5 -B 5 chown > fchownat(AT_FDCWD, ".", 34574, 100, 0) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted) > ++ id -g > + id_g=1000 > + chown 34574:users . > chown: changing ownership of '.': Operation not permitted > + fail=1 Ooops, something very strange is going on on your system: chown resolves the group 'users' to gid 100 while 'id -g' says 1000. Can you find out why? Are you using some strange Samba/Kerberos authentication against an Active Directory or similar? (I've seen such issues with that combination,) Have a nice day, Berny
