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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 11:49:16 -0400
To: John Marrett <jmarrett AT mediagrif DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: "William A. Hoffman" <billlist AT nycap DOT rr DOT com>
Subject: Re: Invalid arugment and IO Error with bunzip2
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My guess is this problem is related to the ntsec stuff as are many recent posts.
Someone correct me if I am wrong, but to get cygwin to work properly these
days I had to do two things:

1. manually modify the /etc/passwd file
mkpasswd -du mywindowslogin >> /etc/passwd
Where mywindowslogin is the name of the account that you log into windows with.

2. set CYGWIN=nontsec


There are many posts of gcc does not work, patch does not work, bz2 does not work, 
XXX does not work....   I suspect many of these problems are related to not
being able to read/write files.

Is there some way that this can be fixed?   If you run setup on a new computer
right now (or at least two days ago), gcc will not work and all files you create
will be owned by a non-existent user.    Perhaps there should be a warning or a
FAQ entry, but I would think that the default running of setup should create
a cygwin that works.

-Bill


At 11:35 AM 10/22/2002 -0400, John Marrett wrote:
>Yesterday I installed the most recent version of cygwin. When I attempt
>to uncompress bz2 files I get a Invalid Parameter / I/O Error. Tar works
>with the j option however. I re-installed the bunzip2 packages from the
>server but it didn't resolve the problem. 
>
>Here are a few commands demonstrating the problem:
>
>$ bunzip2 xwinclip-Test06.exe.bz2 
>
>bunzip2: I/O or other error, bailing out.  Possible reason follows.
>bunzip2: Invalid argument
>        Input file = xwinclip-Test06.exe.bz2, output file =
>xwinclip-Test06.exe
>bunzip2: Deleting output file xwinclip-Test06.exe, if it exists. $ tar
>cjf test.tar.bz2 GNUstep $ tar tvjf test.tar.bz2 | more
>drwxrwxrwx 1344/None         0 2002-10-21 13:43:04 GNUstep/
>drwxrwxrwx 1344/None         0 2002-10-21 13:43:04 GNUstep/.AppInfo/
>drwxrwxrwx 1344/None         0 2002-10-21 13:43:11 GNUstep/Defaults/
>-rw------- 1344/None      4023 2002-10-21 13:43:09
>GNUstep/Defaults/WindowMaker
>-rw------- 1344/None       267 2002-10-21 13:43:09
>GNUstep/Defaults/WMGLOBAL
>[...]
>JohnF AT DEV029 ~
>$ bunzip2 test.tar.bz2 
>
>bunzip2: I/O or other error, bailing out.  Possible reason follows.
>bunzip2: Invalid argument
>        Input file = test.tar.bz2, output file = test.tar
>bunzip2: Deleting output file test.tar, if it exists.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>-JohnF
>
>
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