error parsing setup.bz2 in setup.exe
Christopher Faylor
cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com
Wed Jan 4 18:46:00 GMT 2006
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 09:58:39AM -0800, 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?
There was a problem with the setup.ini file on sourceware.org. It should
be fixed now but it will take a while to propagate.
cgf
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