Nickolay Belostotsky wrote:
>
> Hi all!
>
> After I've installed X 4, when I tar -xvf something, I get this error on
> every file, but the files *do* unpack:
>
> $ tar -xvf kde-qt-support-1.90.tar
> tar: couldn't set uid 1002 gid 1002 using chown: Operation not permitted
>
> The error message is not exactly as it is, this is my translation from
> Russian. And I'm logged as root, I don't know why operation is not
> permitted... Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> -- Koly
Well, the system tryed to set the userID and the groupID to 1002 with
the command chown: and this failed ! This ID was set when tar the file.
See to what ID the files are set for info.
Eric
