Brion, thanks again. That was indeed the case. Venlige hilsener, Morten Blaabjerg On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Morten Blaabjerg &lt;mortenblaabjerg(a)gmail.com > OK, thanks - if I remember right no files have been touched in an attempt > to keep the install as clean as possible. But something may have slipped. > Will take a look! Thanks for pointing out the obvious! :-) > > Venlige hilsener, > Morten Blaabjerg > > > > On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Brion Vibber &lt;brion(a)pobox.com> >> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Morten Blaabjerg < >> mortenblaabjerg(a)gmail.com >> >> >> > I get the following error when I attempt to run the update script from >> the >> > command line after switching via SVN to MediaWiki 1.17.0. >> > >> > Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_SL, expecting ')' in >> > > /home/public_html/.../public/languages/messages/MessagesDa.php on line >> 50 >> > > >> > >> > The server runs php5 and either php update.php and php5 update.php >> yields >> > the same result. >> > >> > Any ideas? >> > >> >> Look at languages/messages/MessagesDa.php line 50 and see if there's >> anything awry there. >> >> For instance, if you had previously modified the file directly, say to >> attempt to customize the namespace names, you might have some merge >> conflict >> markers in there. >> >> -- brion >> _______________________________________________ >> MediaWiki-l mailing list >> MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >> > >