[OS X TeX] TeX Live Utility - fails to update infrastructure - cannot find TeX Live root

[Herbert Schulz]

> On Dec 29, 2014, at 12:26 PM, Juergen Fenn <schneeschmelze at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
> 2014-12-28 19:48 GMT+01:00 Adam R. Maxwell <amaxwell at mac.com>:
>> If you need to update, you can install the new version from the TL critical repository, as described in TLU's Help.
>> 
>> In TLU, choose the "Actions" menu and hold down the Option key. This will give you an option to install TeX Live Manager from the critical repository before it's pushed out to CTAN.
>> 
>> After this, you may see a "Local version is newer" status for texlive.infra. You can safely ignore this.
> 
> I am sorry to say that this did not work for me either on Mavericks
> 10.9.5. I've received the same error message as the OP had reported.
> Please confer the log file below.
> 
> Thank you for looking into this issue.
> 
> Best regards,
> Jürgen.
> 
> 
> 2014-12-29 18:22:30 +0000 Notice -[TLMMainWindowController
> updateInfrastructureFromCriticalRepository:][18786] Beginning
> user-requested infrastructure update from tlcritical repo…
> 2014-12-29 18:22:30 +0000 Notice -[TLMMainWindowController
> _isCorrectDatabaseVersionAtURL:][18786] Checking database version in
> case preferences have been changed…
> 2014-12-29 18:22:30 +0000 Notice -[TLMDatabase
> _downloadDatabaseHead][18786] Checking the repository version.  Please
> be patient.
> 2014-12-29 18:22:30 +0000 Notice -[TLMDatabase
> _downloadDatabaseHead][18786] Downloading at least 2048 bytes of tlpdb
> for a version check…
> 2014-12-29 18:22:31 +0000 Notice -[TLMDatabase
> _downloadDatabaseHead][18786] Downloaded 2736 bytes of tlpdb for
> version check
> 2014-12-29 18:22:31 +0000 Notice -[TLMMainWindowController
> _updateAllPackagesFromRepository:][18786] Beginning infrastructure
> update from ftp://tug.org/texlive/tlcritical
> 2014-12-29 18:22:31 +0000 Notice -[TLMInfraUpdateOperation
> _synchronouslyDownloadURL:toPath:][18786] Downloading URL:
> ftp://tug.org/texlive/tlcritical/update-tlmgr-latest.sh
> 2014-12-29 18:22:31 +0000 Notice -[TLMInfraUpdateOperation
> download:willSendRequest:redirectResponse:][18786] Download redirected
> to ftp://tug.org/texlive/tlcritical/update-tlmgr-latest.sh, expecting
> 0 bytes.
> 2014-12-29 18:23:31 +0000 Notice -[TLMInfraUpdateOperation
> download:didFailWithError:][18786] Download failed: Error
> Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1001 "The request timed out."
> UserInfo=0x6080002f7900 {NSUnderlyingError=0x608001c4a3b0 "The request
> timed out.", NSErrorFailingURLStringKey=ftp://tug.org/texlive/tlcritical/update-tlmgr-latest.sh,
> NSErrorFailingURLKey=ftp://tug.org/texlive/tlcritical/update-tlmgr-latest.sh,
> NSLocalizedDescription=The request timed out.}
> Failed URL was: ftp://tug.org/texlive/tlcritical/update-tlmgr-latest.sh

Howdy,

is there a real need to grab the one from tlcritical? If you haven't already obtained the present version from the TeX Live repository because of the problem with the script you can get it by running

sudo tlmgr update --self

in Terminal---giving your admin password when requested. Once that is done don't worry about it and you can do all the rest of the updates using TLU.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)