xorg installation fails, 99% complete only

Gerrit P. Haase gp@familiehaase.de
Thu Nov 11 12:36:00 GMT 2004


Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Carlo Florendo wrote:
> 
>> [snip]
>> In any case, here's setup.log.bz2.  (Compressed since it is greater than
>> 100K) The WinXP SP2 machine is accessible to me off-line.  Thus, the
>> delay in the sending of these files.
[...]
> Hmm, the fact that it attempts to reinstall packages, coupled with the
> fact that it's not renaming postinstall scripts properly, makes me wonder
> whether your Cygwin directory tree is writable by the user that performs
> the install.  This would also be consistent with the "Cannot open
> c:\cygwin\var\log\setup.log for writing" message that others reported.

IIRC, Bruno said that he is in the Administrator group, should'nt this 
be sufficient?


Gerrit
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