I tried chmod a+w in the meantime and confirmed it works around the issue.
Thanks for suggesting it.

On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 2:01 AM Henry S. Thompson <h...@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:

> Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin writes:
>
> > My Name via Cygwin writes:
> >
> >> Thank you, but I find catalog already present, as a file rather than a
> >> directory; so I'll hold off unless you say mkdir is really what I
> should do:
> >
> > No, the file is correct.  The following worked for me:
> >
> >  > chmod a+x /etc/xml/catalog
> >  > /etc/postinstall/fontconfig_dtd.sh.done
>
> Argh, apologies, typo above, should be
>
>  > chmod a+w /etc/xml/catalog
>
> ht
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