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Re: xorg installation fails, 99% complete only
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> 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?
Nope. It's possible to create files that aren't readable/writeable by the
"Administrators" group. Being in "Administrators" allows you to take
ownership of the files or change the mode on them, but AFAIK that's not
done in the course of a normal write.
Igor
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