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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
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Evidence suggests I or someone else ran mkgroup and mkpasswd when I first g=
ot this machine.  The date on /etc/group is right for that.  /etc/passwd ha=
s 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=3Dustar.  Sadly, I'd like to=
 use the start menu...  But maybe I can figure out how to make a shortcut t=
hat calls bash to launch emacs.   Thanks for the pointer.

-----Original Message-----
From: Lee [mailto:ler762 AT gmail DOT com]=20
Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 1:09 PM
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Strange tar error with --format=3Dustar: 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=3Dustar 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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