From: My Name <mname989@gmail.com>
To: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
Cc: The Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Cygwin Setup says, "could not open /etc/xml/catalog for saving // add command failed". Am I safe to ignore it?
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2020 06:54:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGUd5DVUO34Bg0xUaZYtZ6KFT=p_+kXBrTbjk6V6fMcMjLgL9g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGUd5DWcye3YMvAZmvDDxDz48C1xZdWk90+ybNPbyY6iK21d4Q@mail.gmail.com>
P.S. Now I too need to correct my previous email to the list. What *really*
did, which worked around the issue for me, was the more conservative "chmod
u+w".
On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 6:07 AM My Name <mname989@gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried chmod a+w in the meantime and confirmed it works around the issue.
> Thanks for suggesting it.
>
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 2:01 AM Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin writes:
>>
>> > My Name via Cygwin writes:
>> >
>> >> Thank you, but I find catalog already present, as a file rather than a
>> >> directory; so I'll hold off unless you say mkdir is really what I
>> should do:
>> >
>> > No, the file is correct. The following worked for me:
>> >
>> > > chmod a+x /etc/xml/catalog
>> > > /etc/postinstall/fontconfig_dtd.sh.done
>>
>> Argh, apologies, typo above, should be
>>
>> > chmod a+w /etc/xml/catalog
>>
>> ht
>> --
>> Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
>> 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440
>> Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@inf.ed.ac.uk
>> URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/
>> [mail from me _always_ has a .sig like this -- mail without it is forged
>> spam]
>>
>> The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
>> Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
>>
>>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-23 13:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-22 2:48 My Name
2020-06-22 5:07 ` Marco Atzeri
2020-06-22 6:13 ` My Name
2020-06-22 7:47 ` My Name
2020-06-22 10:36 ` Henry S. Thompson
2020-06-23 9:01 ` Henry S. Thompson
2020-06-23 13:07 ` My Name
2020-06-23 13:54 ` My Name [this message]
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