Comment 1 for bug 276314

Hello

That seems weird. I tried to reinstall 0.5.1 on my local machin, and everything worked fine. Try once to set the rights for vars.php to 666, which would be "more correct". But actually, I am pretty clueless.
For the folder everything is fine?
If you know how to alter your database manually, you could try to remove the line where it checks if vars.php is writable (line 179).

If something works or not, or you found another solution, let me know over launchpad, thanks.

Greets, Michael