Ugh, top-posting. Reformatted... On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Eric Vlach wrote:
----- 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. 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?)
I think this message, posted (by mistake) into a different thread, may explain this: <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-01/msg00157.html>. HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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/
