From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from loire.is.ed.ac.uk (loire.is.ed.ac.uk [129.215.16.10]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BB1EC3893668 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 2020 09:01:06 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 sourceware.org BB1EC3893668 Received: from crunchie.inf.ed.ac.uk (crunchie.inf.ed.ac.uk [129.215.202.41]) by loire.is.ed.ac.uk (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id 05N915Uo030626 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT); Tue, 23 Jun 2020 10:01:05 +0100 Received: from ecclerig.inf.ed.ac.uk (ecclerig.inf.ed.ac.uk [129.215.24.151]) by crunchie.inf.ed.ac.uk (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id 05N914V2001385; Tue, 23 Jun 2020 10:01:04 +0100 Received: from ecclerig.inf.ed.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ecclerig.inf.ed.ac.uk (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id 05N915Fs002798; Tue, 23 Jun 2020 10:01:05 +0100 Received: (from ht@localhost) by ecclerig.inf.ed.ac.uk (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) id 05N9140I002797; Tue, 23 Jun 2020 10:01:04 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: ecclerig.inf.ed.ac.uk: ht set sender to ht@inf.ed.ac.uk using -f To: My Name Cc: The Cygwin Mailing List Subject: Re: Cygwin Setup says, "could not open /etc/xml/catalog for saving // add command failed". Am I safe to ignore it? References: <4c3969c7-7d91-c8f9-05f8-2a98443d1eb2@gmail.com> From: "Henry S. Thompson" Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2020 10:01:04 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin's message of "Mon\, 22 Jun 2020 11\:36\:17 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1012 (Gnus v5.10.12) XEmacs/21.5-b34 (linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Edinburgh-Scanned: at loire.is.ed.ac.uk with MIMEDefang 2.84, Sophie, Sophos Anti-Virus, Clam AntiVirus X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.84 on 129.215.16.10 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, KAM_DMARC_STATUS, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H4, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS, TXREP autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: General Cygwin discussions and problem reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2020 09:01:09 -0000 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.