Bug#770193: glib2.0: FTBFS in jessie: gsettings test hangs during /gsettings/no-write-binding

Simon McVittie smcv at debian.org
Sat Nov 22 21:18:57 UTC 2014


Control: retitle 770193 glib2.0: FTBFS if built by root: gsettings test hangs during /gsettings/no-write-binding

On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 at 19:26:53 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> Actually, spoke too soon; a build under sudo does eventually fail
> for me. I'm re-running the build as an ordinary user and under sudo
> just to be sure, but it seems plausible that this is why it's failing.

Yes, this is reproducible on a jessie system. The build succeeds if
you aren't root (you'll need to apt-get install fakeroot) but fails
if you are building as uid 0 via sudo.

    S



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