Strange tar error with --format=ustar: value 4294967295 out of gid_t range 0..2097151

[Lee]

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

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