error parsing setup.bz2 in setup.exe

Igor Peshansky pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
Wed Jan 4 18:02:00 GMT 2006


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: <http://cygwin.com/setup/snapshots/>.
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
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