I see bug #690081 made this run only in interactive mode, but it still fails for me when I do a make test. Apparently my utmp is in an unexpected place, /var/run/, which I guess doesn't agree with my libc? I don't know how common this bug will be for other people, but if anyone else experiences it you should probably just get rid of the getlogin test altogether, or at least catch the OSError: (2, 'No such file or directory') and don't have that mean test failure.
Logged In: YES user_id=670441 Yeah, this patched fixed it just fine. As long as I've got you here, should test_socket require the network resource be enabled? It only works for me when I'm connected. When not connected testHostnameRes fails because getfqdn() returns my hostname, 'zazz', but gethostbyaddr(ip) returns the hostname 'localhost'. When I am connected getfqdn() also returns 'localhost' so there's no problem. It could be fixed for me by either requiring the network resource or changing line 234 of test_socket from: all_host_names = [hname] + aliases to: all_host_names = [hname, hostname] + aliases Or maybe my machine's setup is just messed up in which case I trust you won't worry about it.
Logged In: YES user_id=33168 Rather than implement the attached patch, I have removed the test for getlogin(). The test had minimal benefit (it only tested that getlogin() took no arguments). It failed several times for several different reasons. It could also fail under screen. See http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-March/034120.html Checked in as Lib/test/test_posix.py 1.5
