Evidence suggests I or someone else ran mkgroup and mkpasswd when I first got this machine. The date on /etc/group is right for that. /etc/passwd has stuff that includes me and other obviously-machine-generated info.
Emacs is not bothering its little head about cygwin, though; I'm launching it outside the cygwin environment. I just tried launching it from a cygwin shell, I then get a group'd file. The first file was created by an emacs launched from bash. The second file was created by an emacs launched from the start menu: e:\yduJ>ls -l foo.txt ls -l foo.txt -rwxr-x---+ 1 janderson mkgroup-l-d 34178 Sep 15 17:22 foo.txt e:\yduJ>ls -l foo.htm ls -l foo.htm -rwx------+ 1 janderson ???????? 3561 Sep 15 17:33 foo.htm The ??? file will be barfed on by tar --format=ustar. Sadly, I'd like to use the start menu... But maybe I can figure out how to make a shortcut that calls bash to launch emacs. Thanks for the pointer. -----Original Message----- From: Lee [mailto:ler...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 1:09 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Strange tar error with --format=ustar: value 4294967295 out of gid_t range 0..2097151 On 9/14/09, Judy Anderson wrote: .. snip .. > Except on my usual development machine, where I get the error: > > E:\yduJ> c:\cygwin\bin\tar cf foo.tar --format=ustar foo > /usr/bin/tar: value 4294967295 out of gid_t range 0..2097151 > /usr/bin/tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors > > It works FINE on the official build machine, just not MINE. So I reran > Cygwin setup and reinstalled and rebooted. No help. Did you run mkpasswd and mkgroup on your machine? i think an unknown user or group gets an id of 4294967295 Lee -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
