Diego reported a bug where virsh tries to initialize a readline history directory during 'make check' run as root, but fails because /root was read-only. It turns out that I could reproduce this as non-root, by using: mv ~/.virsh{,.bak} chmod a-w ~ make check -C tests TESTS=int-overflow chmod u+w ~ mv ~/.virsh{.bak,} * tests/int-overflow: Don't trigger interactive mode. Reported by Diego Elio Pettenò. --- Found it. virsh without non-option arguments is interactive and triggers readline shenanigans; change from echoing into an interactive session into running a non-interactive batch session. tests/int-overflow | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tests/int-overflow b/tests/int-overflow index c9f5de9..baf2eef 100755 --- a/tests/int-overflow +++ b/tests/int-overflow @@ -14,9 +14,9 @@ fi . "$srcdir/test-lib.sh" echo "error: failed to get domain '4294967298'" > exp || fail=1 -echo domname 4294967298 | $abs_top_builddir/tools/virsh --quiet \ +$abs_top_builddir/tools/virsh --quiet \ --connect test://$abs_top_srcdir/examples/xml/test/testnode.xml \ - > /dev/null 2> err || fail=1 + 'domname 4294967298; quit' > /dev/null 2> err || fail=1 diff -u err exp || fail=1 exit $fail -- 1.7.4