| 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 <simonpj@microsoft.com>; ghc-devs@haskell.org | Subject: Re: unix/tests/user001 | | Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs <ghc-devs@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