See the discussion about the issues fixed here at:
http://bugs.python.org/issue20868 .

--- Lib/test/test_shutil.py     2014-03-01 03:02:36.088311000 +0100
+++ Lib/test/test_shutil.py     2014-03-01 04:56:37.768311000 +0100
@@ -1053,6 +1053,7 @@
         self.assertRaises(ValueError, make_archive, base_name, 'xxx')
 
     @requires_zlib
+    @unittest.skipIf(True, "getgrgid(0)[0] raises a KeyError on Guix")
     def test_make_archive_owner_group(self):
         # testing make_archive with owner and group, with various combinations
         # this works even if there's not gid/uid support
@@ -1081,6 +1082,7 @@
 
 
     @requires_zlib
+    @unittest.skipIf(True, "getgrgid(0)[0] raises a KeyError on Guix")
     @unittest.skipUnless(UID_GID_SUPPORT, "Requires grp and pwd support")
     def test_tarfile_root_owner(self):
         tmpdir, tmpdir2, base_name =  self._create_files()

--- Lib/test/test_posixpath.py	2014-03-01 05:46:56.984311000 +0100
+++ Lib/test/test_posixpath.py	2014-03-07 00:59:20.888311000 +0100
@@ -319,7 +319,11 @@
                 del env['HOME']
                 home = pwd.getpwuid(os.getuid()).pw_dir
                 # $HOME can end with a trailing /, so strip it (see #17809)
-                self.assertEqual(posixpath.expanduser("~"), home.rstrip("/"))
+                # The Guix builders have '/' as a home directory, so
+                # home.rstrip("/") will be an empty string and the test will
+                # fail. Let's just disable it since it does not really make
+                # sense with such a bizarre setup.
+                # self.assertEqual(posixpath.expanduser("~"), home.rstrip("/"))
 
     def test_normpath(self):
         self.assertEqual(posixpath.normpath(""), ".")
--- Lib/test/test_socket.py.orig	2014-03-02 22:14:12.264311000 +0100
+++ Lib/test/test_socket.py	2014-03-21 03:50:45.660311000 +0100
@@ -819,6 +819,8 @@
             self.assertRaises(OverflowError, socket.htonl, k)
             self.assertRaises(OverflowError, socket.htons, k)
 
+    @unittest.skipUnless(os.path.exists("/etc/services"),
+                         "getservbyname uses /etc/services, which is not in the chroot")
     def testGetServBy(self):
         eq = self.assertEqual
         # Find one service that exists, then check all the related interfaces.
@@ -1104,6 +1106,8 @@
         self.assertRaises(ValueError, s.ioctl, -1, None)
         s.ioctl(socket.SIO_KEEPALIVE_VALS, (1, 100, 100))
 
+    @unittest.skipUnless(os.path.exists("/etc/gai.conf"),
+                         "getaddrinfo() will fail")
     def testGetaddrinfo(self):
         try:
             socket.getaddrinfo('localhost', 80)
@@ -1174,6 +1178,8 @@
         # only IP addresses are allowed
         self.assertRaises(socket.error, socket.getnameinfo, ('mail.python.org',0), 0)
 
+    @unittest.skipUnless(os.path.exists("/etc/gai.conf"),
+                         "getaddrinfo() will fail")
     @unittest.skipUnless(support.is_resource_enabled('network'),
                          'network is not enabled')
     def test_idna(self):