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Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 13:46:07 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: error parsing setup.bz2 in setup.exe
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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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