error parsing setup.bz2 in setup.exe

[Eric Vlach]

Igor,

Earlier I was using setup.exe version 2.510.2.2. I updated and tried both 
version 2.521 and 2.523, with no success. I use "Direct Connection," not IE5 
settings. Are you able to repeat my error on your system?

Here is a detailed explanation of what I was doing:
I bought a new computer and need to install cygwin from scratch. The first 
time I ran the setup.exe, everything worked fine, and I spent about 10 
minutes going through all the modules, copying my old configuration. When I 
finally had all that I wanted, I hit "next." an error came up telling me the 
connection was lost. From then on, every attempt to load setup.bz2 gave me 
the "...unexpected $undefined..." error. The weird thing is that on my old 
computer and my co-workers computer, both having a working version of 
cygwin, the same problem occurs.

Attatched is setup.log.full (not very helpful, but maybe you can find a 
hint?)


----- Original Message ----- 
> 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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