X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 13:02:46 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Eric Vlach cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: error parsing setup.bz2 in setup.exe In-Reply-To: <004e01c61158$7e170570$6901a8c0@Sleepy> Message-ID: References: <004e01c61158$7e170570$6901a8c0@Sleepy> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Eric Vlach wrote: > At 8:30am PST, setup worked fine. Then at 8:50am PST, the following > error occured, and has been occuring ever since: > > Cygwin's setup.exe (using a copy downloaded 1/4/2005, 9:20am) fails to > load the setup file. After selecting a mirror, it downloads the > setup.bz2 file, and upon reading it encounters an error. Message box > pops up with: "(null) line 10196: syntax error, unexpected $undefined, > expecting STRING." > > I tried this with a dozen different mirrors, as well as on two other > computers, with no success. Any ideas? Try the latest setup snapshot: . Also, did you use "IE5 settings" for your connection? If so, try clearing the IE cache -- you may be using a stale version of setup.bz2. If this doesn't help, please post the content of /var/log/setup.log.full. HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/