Cygwin Setup says, "could not open /etc/xml/catalog for saving // add command failed". Am I safe to ignore it?

[My Name]

P.S. Now I too need to correct my previous email to the list. What *really*
did, which worked around the issue for me, was the more conservative "chmod
u+w".

On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 6:07 AM My Name <mname989@gmail.com> wrote:

> I tried chmod a+w in the meantime and confirmed it works around the issue.
> Thanks for suggesting it.
>
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 2:01 AM Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin writes:
>>
>> > My Name via Cygwin writes:
>> >
>> >> Thank you, but I find catalog already present, as a file rather than a
>> >> directory; so I'll hold off unless you say mkdir is really what I
>> should do:
>> >
>> > No, the file is correct.  The following worked for me:
>> >
>> >  > chmod a+x /etc/xml/catalog
>> >  > /etc/postinstall/fontconfig_dtd.sh.done
>>
>> Argh, apologies, typo above, should be
>>
>>  > chmod a+w /etc/xml/catalog
>>
>> ht
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