Re: xorg installation fails, 99% complete only

[bruno patin <bruno dot patin at wanadoo dot fr>]

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