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