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Re: fc-cache: failed to write cache
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin)
<reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com> wrote:
> On 10/10/2009 12:26 AM, Steven Woody wrote:
>>
>> After did some explore on my system, I found a very strange thing:
>> the permissions on directory /etc/postinstall and all scripts
>> contained in it are no correctly. ?Below is a piece of it:
>
> That's not so important. ?These scripts are invoked directly by the shell
> and Cygwin knows they are shell scripts by looking at the #! line. ?So
> that's OK.
but it is a clue, it's a suspicious. I said, in another installation
on another computer, the file permissions are all rwxr-xr-x in this
directory. Both are cygwin1.7, using same procedure of installation,
why there are differences?
>
>> I compared to another normally run computer, the scripts in the
>> directory should all be rwxr-xr-x for the file owner.
>>
>> then I tried to rename fontconfig.conf.done to fontconffig.conf and
>> change permission for it, but I *can not*, the 'chmod' command takes
>> no effect on the file.
>
> I see. ?And we're supposed to know what this means by... what? ?Perhaps
> now would be a good time to review the problem reporting guidelines found
> here: <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>
Please check out the enclosed cygcheck.log file, there an output after running:
$cygcheck -svr
>
>> What's wrong with my installation? ?I was using offline installation,
>> and should be no corruption.
>
> I don't know why an "offline" installation would be more or less
> susceptible to "corruption".
I mean 'offline' won't be interrupted by network connection problems
>
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