| that your user doesn't have a valid group, which is quite odd. What
| does the `id` command say?
simonpj@cam-05-unx:~/tmp$ id
uid=501(simonpj) gid=1001 groups=1001,27(sudo)
| -----Original Message-----
| From: Ben Gamari [mailto:ben@well-typed.com]
| Sent: 08 December 2017 15:13
| To: Simon Peyton Jones ; ghc-devs@haskell.org
| Subject: Re: unix/tests/user001
|
| Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs 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
