diff --git a/tests/Symfony/Tests/Component/HttpFoundation/File/MimeType/MimeTypeTest.php b/tests/Symfony/Tests/Component/HttpFoundation/File/MimeType/MimeTypeTest.php
index b8810db067..ea83c73c59 100644
--- a/tests/Symfony/Tests/Component/HttpFoundation/File/MimeType/MimeTypeTest.php
+++ b/tests/Symfony/Tests/Component/HttpFoundation/File/MimeType/MimeTypeTest.php
@@ -79,6 +79,10 @@ class MimeTypeTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
             $this->markTestSkipped('Can not verify chmod operations on Windows');
         }
 
+        if (in_array(get_current_user(), array('root'))) {
+            $this->markTestSkipped('This test will fail if run under superuser');
+        }
+
         $path = __DIR__.'/../Fixtures/to_delete';
         touch($path);
         chmod($path, 0333);
diff --git a/tests/Symfony/Tests/Component/Translation/Loader/ResourceBundleLoaderTest.php b/tests/Symfony/Tests/Component/Translation/Loader/ResourceBundleLoaderTest.php
index ea1f67fb73..78f371c0dc 100644
--- a/tests/Symfony/Tests/Component/Translation/Loader/ResourceBundleLoaderTest.php
+++ b/tests/Symfony/Tests/Component/Translation/Loader/ResourceBundleLoaderTest.php
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ class ResourceBundleFileLoaderTest extends LocalizedTestCase
 {
     public function testLoad()
     {
+        // resource is build using genrb command
         $loader = new ResourceBundleLoader();
         $resource = __DIR__.'/../fixtures/resourcebundle/res';
         $catalogue = $loader->load($resource, 'en', 'domain1');
@@ -30,6 +31,9 @@ class ResourceBundleFileLoaderTest extends LocalizedTestCase
 
     public function testDatEnglishLoad()
     {
+        // bundled resource is build using pkgdata command which at leas in ICU 4.2 comes in extremely! buggy form
+        // you must specify an temporary build directory which is not the same as current directory and
+        // MUST reside on the same partition. pkgdata -p resources -T /srv -d . packagelist.txt
         $loader = new ResourceBundleLoader();
         $resource = __DIR__.'/../fixtures/resourcebundle/dat/resources';
         $catalogue = $loader->load($resource, 'en', 'domain1');
diff --git a/tests/Symfony/Tests/Component/Translation/fixtures/resourcebundle/dat/en.res b/tests/Symfony/Tests/Component/Translation/fixtures/resourcebundle/dat/en.res
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1fc1436d66
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diff --git a/tests/Symfony/Tests/Component/Translation/fixtures/resourcebundle/dat/fr.res b/tests/Symfony/Tests/Component/Translation/fixtures/resourcebundle/dat/fr.res
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f58416094b
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diff --git a/tests/Symfony/Tests/Component/Translation/fixtures/resourcebundle/dat/packagelist.txt b/tests/Symfony/Tests/Component/Translation/fixtures/resourcebundle/dat/packagelist.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c5783ed431
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/Symfony/Tests/Component/Translation/fixtures/resourcebundle/dat/packagelist.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+en.res
+fr.res
diff --git a/tests/Symfony/Tests/Component/Translation/fixtures/resourcebundle/dat/resources.dat b/tests/Symfony/Tests/Component/Translation/fixtures/resourcebundle/dat/resources.dat
index b8b5b2bc5e..563b0eaef2 100644
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diff --git a/tests/Symfony/Tests/Component/Translation/fixtures/resourcebundle/res/en.res b/tests/Symfony/Tests/Component/Translation/fixtures/resourcebundle/res/en.res
index ed962ca285..ad894a92be 100644
Binary files a/tests/Symfony/Tests/Component/Translation/fixtures/resourcebundle/res/en.res and b/tests/Symfony/Tests/Component/Translation/fixtures/resourcebundle/res/en.res differ