On Fri, Sep 19, 2025 at 11:58:22AM +0200, Stefano Brivio wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Sep 2025 09:43:29 +0800
> Yumei Huang <yuhuang@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Yumei Huang <yuhuang@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  test/README.md | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> >  1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/test/README.md b/test/README.md
> > index 91ca603..e3e9d37 100644
> > --- a/test/README.md
> > +++ b/test/README.md
> > @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Example for Debian, and possibly most Debian-based distributions:
> >      git go iperf3 isc-dhcp-common jq libgpgme-dev libseccomp-dev linux-cpupower
> >      lm-sensors lz4 netavark netcat-openbsd psmisc qemu-efi-aarch64
> >      qemu-system-arm qemu-system-misc qemu-system-ppc qemu-system-x86
> > -    qemu-system-x86 sipcalc socat strace tmux uidmap valgrind
> > +    sipcalc socat strace tmux uidmap valgrind
> >  
> >  NOTE: the tests need a qemu version >= 7.2, or one that contains commit
> >  13c6be96618c ("net: stream: add unix socket"): this change introduces support
> > @@ -81,7 +81,12 @@ The following additional packages are commonly needed:
> >  
> >  ## Regular test
> >  
> > -Just issue:
> > +Before running the tests, you need to prepare the required assets:
> > +
> > +    cd test
> > +    make assets
> > +
> > +Then issue:
> >  
> >      ./run
> >  
> > @@ -91,6 +96,28 @@ variable settings: DEBUG=1 enables debugging messages, TRACE=1 enables tracing
> >  
> >      PCAP=1 TRACE=1 ./run
> >  
> > +**Note:**
> > +
> > +* It's recommended to run the commands as a non-root user.
> > +  Due to [Bug 967509](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=967509),
> > +  if you switch users with `su` or `sudo`, the directory `/run/user/ID` may
> > +  not be created. In that case, `XDG_RUNTIME_DIR` will incorrectly point to
> > +  `/run/user/0` instead of `/run/user/ID`, which can cause error.
> 
> Thanks for the research, I wasn't aware of that, and recently spent
> quite some time figuring that out (for other reasons):
> 
>   https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-70222
> 
> in that case, XDG_RUNTIME_DIR was simply not set. Things were working
> with 'machinectl shell' instead.
> 
> At the same time: running this whole stuff as root sounds rather crazy,
> unless it's a throw-away VMs with absolutely nothing important on it.

That might be more common than us old-school Unix heads tend to think.

> That is, regardless of the issue with XDG_RUNTIME_DIR. I would maybe
> make the wording stronger, something like:
> 
> * Don't run the tests as root, it's not needed!
> * If you really need to, note that ...

Right.  The whole point of passt/pasta is not to require root, so
testing it as root means you're not really testing what it's intended
to do.

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