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I am using a fresh version of Magento 2.1 Apache 2.2 I have set my file permissions to 777 on the entire folder I can see that Apache is writing as apache:apache I have chown'd the entire folder to apache:apache
This spins
Finally it ends up like this
Try giving the write permission again, recursively (a.k.a. chmod -R +w pub).
Magento checks if ALL files inside those paths are writable, not just the main directories. My guess is that Magento wants to be sure it can clean it up afterwards.
Your error comes from the filePermissionsAction method of the setup/src/Magento/Setup/Controller/Environment.php action class: https://github.com/magento/magento2/blob/feeadbe7351647e2edca646c04a03ddeb20f922a/setup/src/Magento/Setup/Controller/Environment.php#L160
It's hard to say what went wrong here but I suggest you debug by checking the content of the $requiredPaths and $currentPaths variables.
