* Cygwin Setup says, "could not open /etc/xml/catalog for saving // add command failed". Am I safe to ignore it? @ 2020-06-22 2:48 My Name 2020-06-22 5:07 ` Marco Atzeri 0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread From: My Name @ 2020-06-22 2:48 UTC (permalink / raw) To: The Cygwin Mailing List [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 352 bytes --] [image: CygwinSetup64ErrorMessage-000.png] /var/log/setup: =============================== ... 2020/06/21 17:21:30 running: C:\cygwin64\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/fontconfig_dtd.sh" could not open /etc/xml/catalog for saving add command failed 2020/06/21 17:21:30 abnormal exit: exit code=2 ... =============================== [-- Attachment #2: CygwinSetup64ErrorMessage-000.png --] [-- Type: image/png, Size: 13722 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: Cygwin Setup says, "could not open /etc/xml/catalog for saving // add command failed". Am I safe to ignore it? 2020-06-22 2:48 Cygwin Setup says, "could not open /etc/xml/catalog for saving // add command failed". Am I safe to ignore it? My Name @ 2020-06-22 5:07 ` Marco Atzeri 2020-06-22 6:13 ` My Name 0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread From: Marco Atzeri @ 2020-06-22 5:07 UTC (permalink / raw) To: cygwin On 22.06.2020 04:48, My Name via Cygwin wrote: > [image: CygwinSetup64ErrorMessage-000.png] > > /var/log/setup: > > =============================== > ... > 2020/06/21 17:21:30 running: C:\cygwin64\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile > "/etc/postinstall/fontconfig_dtd.sh" > could not open /etc/xml/catalog for saving > add command failed > 2020/06/21 17:21:30 abnormal exit: exit code=2 > ... > =============================== > try mkdir /etc/xml/catalog /etc/postinstall/fontconfig_dtd.sh ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: Cygwin Setup says, "could not open /etc/xml/catalog for saving // add command failed". Am I safe to ignore it? 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 0 siblings, 2 replies; 8+ messages in thread From: My Name @ 2020-06-22 6:13 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Marco Atzeri; +Cc: The Cygwin Mailing List 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: ================= $ cat /etc/xml/catalog <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE catalog PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD Entity Resolution XML Catalog V1.0//EN" " http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/release/1.0/catalog.dtd"> <catalog xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:entity:xmlns:xml:catalog"> <system systemId="fonts.dtd" uri="/usr/share/xml/fontconfig/fonts.dtd"/> </catalog> $ ================= On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 10:07 PM Marco Atzeri via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote: > On 22.06.2020 04:48, My Name via Cygwin wrote: > > [image: CygwinSetup64ErrorMessage-000.png] > > > > /var/log/setup: > > > > =============================== > > ... > > 2020/06/21 17:21:30 running: C:\cygwin64\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile > > "/etc/postinstall/fontconfig_dtd.sh" > > could not open /etc/xml/catalog for saving > > add command failed > > 2020/06/21 17:21:30 abnormal exit: exit code=2 > > ... > > =============================== > > > > try > > mkdir /etc/xml/catalog > /etc/postinstall/fontconfig_dtd.sh > > -- > Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: Cygwin Setup says, "could not open /etc/xml/catalog for saving // add command failed". Am I safe to ignore it? 2020-06-22 6:13 ` My Name @ 2020-06-22 7:47 ` My Name 2020-06-22 10:36 ` Henry S. Thompson 1 sibling, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread From: My Name @ 2020-06-22 7:47 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Marco Atzeri; +Cc: The Cygwin Mailing List BTW, Cygwin Setup 64 showed me that error message at the end of installing this set of Cygwin packages: python27, bzr, emacs-w32, aspell, aspell-en, octave. On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 11:13 PM My Name <mname989@gmail.com> wrote: > 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: > > ================= > $ cat /etc/xml/catalog > <?xml version="1.0"?> > <!DOCTYPE catalog PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD Entity Resolution XML Catalog > V1.0//EN" " > http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/release/1.0/catalog.dtd"> > <catalog xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:entity:xmlns:xml:catalog"> > <system systemId="fonts.dtd" uri="/usr/share/xml/fontconfig/fonts.dtd"/> > </catalog> > > $ > ================= > > On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 10:07 PM Marco Atzeri via Cygwin < > cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote: > >> On 22.06.2020 04:48, My Name via Cygwin wrote: >> > [image: CygwinSetup64ErrorMessage-000.png] >> > >> > /var/log/setup: >> > >> > =============================== >> > ... >> > 2020/06/21 17:21:30 running: C:\cygwin64\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile >> > "/etc/postinstall/fontconfig_dtd.sh" >> > could not open /etc/xml/catalog for saving >> > add command failed >> > 2020/06/21 17:21:30 abnormal exit: exit code=2 >> > ... >> > =============================== >> > >> >> try >> >> mkdir /etc/xml/catalog >> /etc/postinstall/fontconfig_dtd.sh >> >> -- >> Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html >> FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ >> Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html >> Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple >> > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: Cygwin Setup says, "could not open /etc/xml/catalog for saving // add command failed". Am I safe to ignore it? 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 1 sibling, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread From: Henry S. Thompson @ 2020-06-22 10:36 UTC (permalink / raw) To: My Name; +Cc: Marco Atzeri, The Cygwin Mailing List 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 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. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: Cygwin Setup says, "could not open /etc/xml/catalog for saving // add command failed". Am I safe to ignore it? 2020-06-22 10:36 ` Henry S. Thompson @ 2020-06-23 9:01 ` Henry S. Thompson 2020-06-23 13:07 ` My Name 0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread From: Henry S. Thompson @ 2020-06-23 9:01 UTC (permalink / raw) To: My Name; +Cc: The Cygwin Mailing List 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. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: Cygwin Setup says, "could not open /etc/xml/catalog for saving // add command failed". Am I safe to ignore it? 2020-06-23 9:01 ` Henry S. Thompson @ 2020-06-23 13:07 ` My Name 2020-06-23 13:54 ` My Name 0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread From: My Name @ 2020-06-23 13:07 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Henry S. Thompson; +Cc: The Cygwin Mailing List 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. > > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: Cygwin Setup says, "could not open /etc/xml/catalog for saving // add command failed". Am I safe to ignore it? 2020-06-23 13:07 ` My Name @ 2020-06-23 13:54 ` My Name 0 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread From: My Name @ 2020-06-23 13:54 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Henry S. Thompson; +Cc: The Cygwin Mailing List 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. >> >> ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
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