test_posix failures - getpwduid()/initgroups()/getgroups()

[neologix]

BPO	14698
Nosy	@pitrou
Files	test_no_pwd.diff

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title = 'test_posix failures - getpwduid()/initgroups()/getgroups()'
updated_at = <Date 2012-06-25.19:20:31.692>
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[neologix]

test_posix is consistently failing on the bigmem buildbot:

http://python.org/dev/buildbot/all/builders/AMD64 debian bigmem 3.x/builds/291/steps/test/logs/stdio

"""
======================================================================
ERROR: test_getgrouplist (test.test_posix.PosixTester)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/var/tmpfs/martin.vonloewis/3.x.loewis-parallel2/build/Lib/test/test_posix.py", line 633, in test_getgrouplist
    set(posix.getgrouplist(pwd.getpwuid(os.getuid())[0],
KeyError: 'getpwuid(): uid not found: 5025'

======================================================================
ERROR: test_initgroups (test.test_posix.PosixTester)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/var/tmpfs/martin.vonloewis/3.x.loewis-parallel2/build/Lib/test/test_posix.py", line 111, in test_initgroups
    name = pwd.getpwuid(posix.getuid()).pw_name
KeyError: 'getpwuid(): uid not found: 5025'
"""

I assume that's because the buildbot tests run with a UID without any corresponding pwd entry (which is legit).
The attached patch should fix thoe failures, by making the tests more robust.

[python-dev]

New changeset 45f0272f5296 by Charles-François Natali in branch '2.7':
Issue bpo-14698: Make test_posix more robust when the current UID doesn't have an
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/45f0272f5296

New changeset 93424b084d08 by Charles-François Natali in branch '3.2':
Issue bpo-14698: Make test_posix more robust when the current UID doesn't have an
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/93424b084d08

New changeset 982c30064bc9 by Charles-François Natali in branch 'default':
Issue bpo-14698: Make test_posix more robust when the current UID doesn't have an
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/982c30064bc9