[tex-live] tlmgr not working after a "failed" tlcritical update

Erwan Le Pennec lepennec at math.jussieu.fr
Wed Oct 29 14:00:16 CET 2008


    Dear all,

    I've encountered a strange behavior with the "tlcritical" 
repository. I've launched an update and it failed to download 
"texlive.infra" and "texlive.infra.i386-linux" with the errors below... 
Since then, tlmgr does not work anymore and exits
with
Can't locate object method "option" via package "TeXLive::TLPDB" at 
/opt/texlive/2008/bin/i386-linux/tlmgr line 1053.

    I think tlmgr has been only partially upgraded and as a result is 
not functioning anymore... What can I do to help solving this issue?

     Yours,

             Erwan

tlmgr -location ftp://tug.org/texlive/tlcritical update --all

tlmgr: installation location ftp://tug.org/texlive/tlcritical
update: bin-texlive (11048 -> 11102) ... running post remove action for 
bin-texlive
running post install action for bin-texlive
done
update: texlive.infra (11050 -> 11102) ... Downloading
   ftp://tug.org/texlive/tlcritical/archive/texlive.infra.doc.tar.lzma
did not succeed, please retry!


Installation of new version of texlive.infra did fail, trying to unwind!
Restoring old package state succeeded.
done
update: texlive.infra.i386-linux (11050 -> 11054) ... Downloading
   
ftp://tug.org/texlive/tlcritical/archive/texlive.infra.i386-linux.tar.lzma
did not succeed, please retry!


Installation of new version of texlive.infra.i386-linux did fail, trying 
to unwind!
Restoring old package state succeeded.
done
tlmgr: package log updated at /opt/texlive/2008/texmf-var/web2c/tlmgr.log
running mktexlsr



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