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Why do so many tests fail on a clean Sage installation

With a completely clean Sage installation, performing ./sage -testall as suggested (required) in the "Walking Through the Development Process", many doctests fail with various errors (including a few segfaults). Is this normal? If so, I'm sure that it is not intended, so is there someone with a grand overview on whether these errors are all in the process of being handled?

These errors mess up the output and makes it very difficult to sort out which are errors caused by the patch you're working on, so you might miss them. It's like dirty dishes in a shared kitchen: if there are _any_, these will quickly multiply ;-) Is there a way to suppress those errors known (assuming the errors are not due to something I did wrong), so I can get a clean overview of new errors?

Cheers, Johan