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Re: Strange tar error with --format=ustar: value 4294967295 out of gid_t range 0..2097151
On 9/14/09, Judy Anderson wrote:
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> 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
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