xorg installation fails, 99% complete only

[bruno patin]

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, bruno patin wrote:
>
>> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>
>> > Also, I believe that Gerrit suggested sending the contents of the 
>> setup
>> > log files.
>> >
>> > [snip]
>> >
>> > I appreciate that you're trying to think of solutions here but there
>> > have already been a couple of suggestions that no one seems to have
>> > bothered to follow through on.   Why not just humor us and provide the
>> > debugging info that we're asking for?
>>
>> ........................
>> 3 the setup.log file (this mail)
>> ......................................
>>
>> Hope that helps
>> BPatin
>
>
> This setup.log doesn't show any install actions whatsoever.  All it shows
> is that you've downloaded a bunch of packages.
>
> I suspect this may have something to do with that "Cannot open setup.log
> for writing" error message.  Try running "c:\cygwin\bin\chmod a+w
> setup.log setup.log.full" from a CMD prompt in "c:\cygwin\var\log" and
> then re-running setup.  Also, setup.log.full should contain more detailed
> error messages after a failed setup run (beware -- that file is
> overwritten on every run of setup).
>     Igor

Igor,

I've no setup.log created in /var/log in fact what I sent you was 
bullshit as it is only the result of my dowload as I see it (first time 
I'm really examining the internal of setup sorry, it works too well). 
Result is that there is no file in /var/log. Can be a real clue.

BPatin