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Re: Problems with permissions after installation of Cygwin


On 11/25/2010 12:39 PM, Mark Beyer wrote:
There is no root account.  I cannot do a mkpasswd or mkgroup because I don't
have permissions to build these files in /etc.
The attached cygcheck.out file indicates AMD64 when I am running on an Intel
I7-950 processor.   The /var/log/setup.log.full is full of "Cannot change
ownership to uid 11002, gid 10512: Invalid argument" messages.

cygcheck -s -v -r> cygcheck.out

Run cygwin.bat with "Run as Administrator" and invoking cygcheck from there.

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