make check-system fails: kernel panic

> Hi,

>

> At commit df154c05dc65025eac2d14ab45699b34c7a1c7c8 (this is on the

> master branch), "make check-system" fails with the following error:

>

> [ 1.277476] cdrom: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20

> [ 1.281489] sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 5

> [ 1.288371] Freeing unused kernel memory: 1760K

> [ 1.290336] Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 18432k

> [ 1.295894] Freeing unused kernel memory: 2024K

> [ 1.299853] Freeing unused kernel memory: 252K

> GC Warning: pthread_getattr_np or pthread_attr_getstack failed for main thread

> GC Warning: Couldn't read /proc/stat

> Welcome, this is GNU's early boot Guile.

> Use '--repl' for an initrd REPL.

>

> loading kernel modules...

> [ 1.555136] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage

> [ 1.574365] usbcore: registered new interface driver uas

> [ 1.597116] hidraw: raw HID events driver (C) Jiri Kosina

> [ 1.603084] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid

> [ 1.606669] usbhid: USB HID core driver

> [ 1.670298] isci: Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller Driver - version 1.2.0

> [ 1.711695] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 11

> [ 1.743896] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 10

> [ 1.773861] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 10

> [ 1.803838] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 11

> [ 1.881230] FS-Cache: Loaded

> [ 1.887453] 9pnet: Installing 9P2000 support

> [ 1.890856] 9p: Installing v9fs 9p2000 file system support

> [ 1.892612] FS-Cache: Netfs '9p' registered for caching

> configuring QEMU networking...

> [ 1.924277] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready

> [ 1.984131] tsc: Refined TSC clocksource calibration: 2400.104 MHz

> [ 1.989541] clocksource: tsc: mask: 0xffffffffffffffff max_cycles: 0x229899a5764, max_idle_ns: 440795258297 ns

> loading '/gnu/store/d61zy77kkb043byv9cirk8f7nv0srm3i-linux-vm-loader'...

> environment variable `PATH' set to `/gnu/store/9g41j8gn1fbzwx29cdnz0ca2lvwxixbr-qemu-minimal-2.11.1/bin:/gnu/store/7l6z1h7l7yip1kvbk1iiyi0693ghpsck-parted-3.2/sbin:/gnu/store/60xif54fvl04i7frgvl187mbq6cqa0dl-e2'

> error: failed to evaluate directive: (directory "/gnu/store" 0 30000)

> error: failed to evaluate directive: (directory "/gnu/store" 0 30000 1021)

> In ./gnu/build/linux-boot.scm:

> 524:13 6 (_)

> In unknown file:

> 5 (primitive-load "/gnu/store/d61zy77kkb043byv9cirk8f7nv0???")

> 4 (primitive-load "/gnu/store/a81ihaar57clfi6yk24zw439g4a???")

> In ice-9/eval.scm:

> 619:8 3 (_ #(#<directory (guile-user) 2601140> ("/gnu/sto???" ??) ???))

> In ./gnu/build/vm.scm:

> 405:4 2 (make-iso9660-image _ "/gnu/store/6vgi86k60kb35lwzn7gc???" ???)

> In ./gnu/build/install.scm:

> 129:2 1 (populate-root-file-system "/gnu/store/6zfhby65bmxggbl…" ???)

> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:

> 260:13 0 (for-each #<procedure 251cde0 at ./gnu/build/install.s??> ???)

> In procedure chown: Operation not permitted

> [ 2.236175] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000000

> [ 2.236175]

> [ 2.240162] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: init Not tainted 4.15.15-gnu #1

> [ 2.240162] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.11.0-0-g63451fca13-prebuilt.qemu-project.org 04/01/2014

> [ 2.240162] Call Trace:

> [ 2.240162] dump_stack+0x63/0x8b

> [ 2.240162] panic+0xe4/0x244

> [ 2.240162] do_exit+0xae2/0xaf0

> [ 2.240162] ? wake_up_state+0x10/0x20

> [ 2.240162] do_group_exit+0x43/0xb0

> [ 2.240162] SyS_exit_group+0x14/0x20

> [ 2.240162] do_syscall_64+0x73/0x130

> [ 2.240162] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x3d/0xa2

> [ 2.240162] RIP: 0033:0x5d59c8

> [ 2.240162] RSP: 002b:00007fffcbb38a98 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000e7

> [ 2.240162] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00000000005d59c8

> [ 2.240162] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000003c RDI: 0000000000000000

> [ 2.240162] RBP: 00000000007cdc10 R08: 00000000000000e7 R09: ffffffffffffffb0

> [ 2.240162] R10: 00007fb6ea4cef88 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000001

> [ 2.240162] R13: 0000000000a4b9a0 R14: 0000000000000002 R15: 000000000000000a

> [ 2.240162] Kernel Offset: 0x15000000 from 0xffffffff81000000 (relocation range: 0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffffbfffffff)

> [ 2.240162] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000000

> [ 2.240162]

>

> The process hangs at this point. I ended it by pressing Control+C.

> Make did not report which test(s) failed. I've attached the full log -

> it's 1.2M compressed, and 28M uncompressed.