On 2021/06/15 00:16, Russell VT wrote:
I think we need more context, here... as what does Windows versus Cygwin
think those permissions are...???
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Which permissions? The error is 'no such object', not
'access denied'. I believe it is similar to trying to read (or
modify) xattr's or acl's on linux symlinks.
Are you running your terminal, as you... or did you run it as Administrator?
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I am in group Administrators as well as Domain Admins
(Samba Domain). Domain Admins and System are both in the
local Administrators group.
Have you run an update, and not rebooted?
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I don't believe so at that time, but I have rebooted since then.
The problem only occurred on files that were symlinks as seen by Windows
and Cygwin.
There should be some "basic shell debugging" done here, first...
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I'm not sure what you mean. Oops, I forgot to list the
command line, but thought that "--xattrs" might be implied from the
fact that the error was about retrieving xattrs.
Cmdline was using shell script calling a function, "backup_dir"
with "ProgramData" from the root directory, where the function was:
backup_dir() {
my DIR=${1:?}
tar c --acls --xattrs --sparse -b 2048 --one-file-system "$DIR" |
dd bs=1M iflag=fullblock of="/b/June_backups/$DIR" oflag=nonblock
}
since
there's a disconnect from when tar gets its file list, and when it
physically goes to retrieve a (possibly temporary) file. It will also
complain about directories it can read, but not access.
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Those were symlinks, not directories.
So, it would be
better to figure out what the "difference" is between what you expect,
and what actually happened with the tar.
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I would expect it might not complain about not being
able to read xattr's on symlinks? I don't think it complains about
not being able to read them on linux -- or at least I've never seen
such.
Unfortunately, permission issues between Windows and Cygwin can be
*/extremely/* complex (ie. there are a ton of details missing here,
which might make it easier to help troubleshoot).
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What necessary details are missing?
Hope that helps point you in a good direction.
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Not sure. I thought I was reporting a bug in cygwin tar
giving an error about trying to read xattrs on symlinks, as I don't
believe it gives an error on linux doing the same thing. Does it?
Thanks for your questions, but I'm still not very clear on what
I left out.
I'd tend to ignore the error on what appeared to be
a misspelled filename, as I'm not even sure how to recreate
that file, but attempting to dump xattrs on a symlink seems like
a pretty straight forward symptom/testcase. What more details
do you think would be pertinent?
Thanks!
-Linda
Cheers!
Russell VT
On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 9:22 PM L A Walsh <cyg...@tlinx.org
<mailto:cyg...@tlinx.org>> wrote:
Tar'ing up a windows dir (ProgData) had some unexected failures:
Several of the sort:
tar: Dbgview: Warning: Cannot llistxattrat: No such file or directory
tar: Desktops: Warning: Cannot llistxattrat: No such file or directory
tar: DiskView: Warning: Cannot llistxattrat: No such file or directory
tar: LoadOrd: Warning: Cannot llistxattrat: No such file or directory
tar: portmon: Warning: Cannot llistxattrat: No such file or directory
Where the item listed (Dbgview, DiskView, etc) is a
windows symlink like:
2019/02/07 22:53 <SYMLINK> Dbgview [SI\Dbgview.exe]
2019/02/07 22:53 <SYMLINK> Desktops [SI\Desktops.exe]
2019/02/07 22:53 <SYMLINK> DiskView [SI\DiskView.exe]
and stems from the use of the --xattrs switch.
Win7SP1x64
cygcheck (cygwin) 3.2.0
The tar continued and finished much as it would after an unreadable
file.
Another error, maybe similar,
tar: C\:Prog64FastPictureViewer: Warning: Cannot file_has_acl_at: No
such file or directory
From a file in "C:\Program Files\FastPictureViewer" [likely mis-]named
"C:Prog64FastPictureViewer"
It seems to be a .dll, that somehow got its name mangled.
Not sure what it was trying to do, but the file seems to be 'in-use'.
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Russell M. Van Tassell <russel...@gmail.com <mailto:russel...@gmail.com>>
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