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 <mname...@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 <h...@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: h...@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. >> >> -- 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
