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RE: Strange tar error with --format=ustar: value 4294967295 out of gid_t range 0..2097151
- From: Judy Anderson <JAnderson at rocketsoftware dot com>
- To: "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:34:42 -0400
- Subject: RE: Strange tar error with --format=ustar: value 4294967295 out of gid_t range 0..2097151
- References: <dd5f2deb0909141008g3b499508j13514e94d55d1318@mail.gmail.com>
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:ler762@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
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