[tex-live] TLDownload::get_file: response error: 500 Can't use an undefined value as a symbol reference

Martin Schröder martin at oneiros.de
Tue Oct 22 22:19:17 CEST 2013


tlmgr update just showed me a message I find slightly wrong:
> tlmgr update --reinstall-forcibly-removed --all --self
[43/47, 15:01/15:11] auto-install: brandeis-dissertation (31931)
[258k] ... TLDownload::get_file: response error: 500 Can't use an
undefined value as a symbol reference (for
ftp://ftp.mpi-sb.mpg.de/pub/tex/mirror/ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/systems/texlive/tlnet/archive/brandeis-dissertation.doc.tar.xz)
TLUtils::download_file: persistent connection ok, but download failed:
ftp://ftp.mpi-sb.mpg.de/pub/tex/mirror/ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/systems/texlive/tlnet/archive/brandeis-dissertation.doc.tar.xz
TLUtils::download_file: retrying with wget.
TLUtils::download_file: retry with wget succeeded:
ftp://ftp.mpi-sb.mpg.de/pub/tex/mirror/ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/systems/texlive/tlnet/archive/brandeis-dissertation.doc.tar.xz
done

This "Can't use an undefined value as a symbol reference" doesn't look right.

Best
    Martin


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