[OS X TeX] Very (Mac)-specific mpm problem

[Alan Munn]

>On 11/28/06, Alan Munn <amunn at msu.edu> wrote:
>>For those of you using the MikTeX package manager, I have a problem
>>that I don't really know how to go about solving. As far as I can
>>tell, it's a weird interaction between mpm and my particular (and
>>somewhat esoteric) networking situation.
>>
>
>
>>% mpm --update-db
>
>Probably it is not the source of the problem but you need to run mpm as root:
>
>% sudo mpm-update-db
>
>and usually mpm instantly starts with
>WAITCONNECT => PROTOCONNECT

Yes, I am running as root. I left out the sudo in my example.  I 
don't get even the WAITCONNECT ==> PROTOCONNECT response.

>What version do you have?
>
>%mpm --version
>MiKTeX Package Manager 2.5.2392 (MiKTeX Tools 2.5 Beta 14)
>Copyright (C) 2005-2006 Christian Schenk
>
>Have you compiled it or copied from somewhere?

Exactly this one.  Downloaded from the MikTeX tools page.

Alan


>
>
>
>>
>>Nothing happens for a while (in the order of minutes), and then
>>finally I get the following message:
>>
>>mpm: The cURL easy interface returned error code 8
>>
>>This error code is supposedly
>>
>>>CURLE_FTP_WEIRD_SERVER_REPLY (8)
>>>
>>>After connecting to an FTP server, libcurl expects to get a certain
>>>reply back. This error code implies that it got a strange or bad
>>>reply. The given remote server is probably not an OK FTP server.
>>
>>Now internet connections work fine on this machine, e.g. web
>>browsing, e-mail and curl itself (i.e. % curl <url>  correctly
>>retrieves the URL.)
>>
>>My question is how do I go about figuring out what is going wrong so
>>that I can even report it to the MikTeX tools developers.  I tried
>>adding the --trace option to the command, but it produces nothing.
>>Similarly, the system log shows nothing.
>>
>>I use mpm on two laptops (a Macbook Pro and a G4) via Airport, both
>>without any difficulty.
>>
>>This is probably too weird for anyone to help, but I thought I'd ask...
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Alan
>>
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Alan Munn                                                   amunn at msu.edu
Department of Linguistics                                   amunn at acm.org
and Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages   Fax.  +1-517-432-2736
Michigan State University, East Lansing MI 48824    Tel.  +1-517-355-7491
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