X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4AD00F44.6060702@cygwin.com> Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:36:20 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090320 Remi/2.0.0.21-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: fc-cache: failed to write cache References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 10/10/2009 12:26 AM, Steven Woody wrote: > After did some explore on my system, I found a very strange thing: > the permissions on directory /etc/postinstall and all scripts > contained in it are no correctly. Below is a piece of it: That's not so important. These scripts are invoked directly by the shell and Cygwin knows they are shell scripts by looking at the #! line. So that's OK. > I compared to another normally run computer, the scripts in the > directory should all be rwxr-xr-x for the file owner. > > then I tried to rename fontconfig.conf.done to fontconffig.conf and > change permission for it, but I *can not*, the 'chmod' command takes > no effect on the file. I see. And we're supposed to know what this means by... what? Perhaps now would be a good time to review the problem reporting guidelines found here: > What's wrong with my installation? I was using offline installation, > and should be no corruption. I don't know why an "offline" installation would be more or less susceptible to "corruption". -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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