X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SARE_MSGID_LONG40,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <6134CDF9E3C17546BE1C9D525BDEEF95F07EEBEDF0@HQMAIL.rocketsoftware.com> References: <6134CDF9E3C17546BE1C9D525BDEEF95F07EEBEDF0@HQMAIL.rocketsoftware.com> Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:08:43 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Strange tar error with --format=ustar: value 4294967295 out of gid_t range 0..2097151 From: Lee To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com 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