I am getting one persistent failure on Linux: =====> user001(normal) 5 of 29 [0, 0, 0] cd . && '/5playpen/simonpj/HEAD-2/inplace/bin/ghc-stage2' -fforce-recomp -dcore-lint -dcmm-lint -dno-debug-output -no-user-package-db -rtsopts -fno-ghci-history -o user001 user001.hs -package unix >user001.comp.stderr 2>&1 cd . && ./user001 >user001.run.stdout 2>user001.run.stderr Actual stdout output differs from expected: --- ./user001.stdout 2014-09-11 08:38:41.000000000 +0100 +++ ./user001.run.stdout 2014-09-26 12:29:52.363884118 +0100 @@ -3,11 +3,11 @@ getEffectiveUserID: OK getEffectiveGroupID: OK getGroups: OK -getLoginName: OK +getLoginName: ERROR: getLoginName: does not exist (No such file or directory) getEffectiveUserName: OK getGroupEntryForID: OK getGroupEntryForName: OK getAllGroupEntries: OK getUserEntryForID: OK -getUserEntryForName: OK +getUserEntryForName: ERROR: getLoginName: does not exist (No such file or directory) getAllUserEntries: OK *** unexpected failure for user001(normal) This is in libraries/unix/tests. I am also getting two failures when I say "sh validate" (runs in parallel). But when I run them individually, they pass: ghci/should_run T2589 [bad stdout or stderr] (ghci) ghci/should_run ghcirun004 [bad stdout or stderr] (ghci) +++ ./ghci/should_run/ghcirun004.run.stderr 2014-09-26 12:06:21.102269076 +0100 @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +ghc-stage2: ioManagerWakeup: write: Bad file descriptor I don't think these can be caused by my commits, but they should be fixed.... Any offers? Simon