[tex-live] tlmgr update problem

[George N. White III]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 1:21 AM, Adam R. Maxwell <amaxwell at mac.com> wrote:
> I ran `/usr/texbin/tlmgr --repository http://mirror.unl.edu/ctan/systems/texlive/tlnet --machine-readable --persistent-downloads update --all` to update my OS X (10.6.3, TeX Live 2009) system this evening.
>
> While the tlmgr update was running, I started a VPN session, and about that time updates started failing.  I've snipped dozens of lines, but they're all the same xz error message you see following the successful update lines.
>
> What I find odd is that presently `tlmgr update --list` finds nothing to update, in spite of all these failures.  Is the installation in an inconsistent state?  I'm guessing I should nuke it and start over again.

Before you throw out the evidence it would be good to figure out why
the update failed.

Since you are using texbin I assume you have MacTeX rather than a
vanilla TL install.   MacTeX sets ownership to root, so if you ran
tlmgr without "sudo" updates will fail due to permission problems.   I
use "chown -R <tladmin> /usr/local/texlive/" to reset permissions so
the <tladmin> user can run tlmgr to update systems via ssh terminal
sessions.



> thanks,
> Adam
>
>        Updating patgen.universal-darwin
>        Updating patgen
>        Updating pdfcomment
>        Updating pdfcrop
>        Updating pdfpages
>        Updating pdfscreen
>        Updating pdftex.universal-darwin
>        Updating pdftex
>    [........]
>        /usr/local/texlive/2009/tlpkg/installer/xz/xzdec.universal-darwin: (stdin): File format not recognized
>        Updating collection-xetex
>        /usr/local/texlive/2009/tlpkg/installer/xz/xzdec.universal-darwin: (stdin): File format not recognized
>        Updating scheme-basic
>        /usr/local/texlive/2009/tlpkg/installer/xz/xzdec.universal-darwin: (stdin): File format not recognized
>        tlmgr: package log updated at /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-var/web2c/tlmgr.log
>        running mktexlsr ...
>        Installation complete; reconfiguring TeX Live
>        done running mktexlsr.
>        running updmap-sys --nomkmap --nohash --enable Map=knitfont.map ...
>
>        Use of uninitialized value $out in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/texbin/tlmgr line 508.
>        updmap-sys --nomkmap --nohash --enable Map=knitfont.map failed (status -1), output:
>
>        running updmap-sys --nomkmap --nohash --enable Map=gptimes.map ...
>
>        Use of uninitialized value $out in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/texbin/tlmgr line 508.
>        updmap-sys --nomkmap --nohash --enable Map=gptimes.map failed (status -1), output:
>
>        running updmap-sys ...
>
>        Use of uninitialized value $out in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/texbin/tlmgr line 508.
>        updmap-sys failed (status -1), output:
>
>        regenerating fmtutil.cnf in /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-var
>        running fmtutil-sys --byengine mpost ...
>
>        Use of uninitialized value $out in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/texbin/tlmgr line 508.
>        fmtutil-sys --byengine mpost failed (status -1), output:
>
>        running fmtutil-sys --byengine pdftex ...
>
>        Use of uninitialized value $out in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/texbin/tlmgr line 508.
>        fmtutil-sys --byengine pdftex failed (status -1), output:
>
> 2010-04-12 21:04:57 -0700 Notice -[TLMLogServer _parseMessageAndNotify:][64304] Unhandled status "exiting "
>        exiting tlmgr:
> 2010-04-12 21:04:58 -0700 Notice -[TLMAuthorizedOperation _runUntilChildExit][64304]    kqueue noted that pid 83802 exited (/usr/texbin/tlmgr --repository http://mirror.unl.edu/ctan/systems/texlive/tlnet --machine-readable --persistent-downloads update --all)
>        child process pid = 83802 exited
>        exit status of pid = 83802 was 1
> 2010-04-12 21:04:58 -0700 Notice -[TLMAuthorizedOperation _runUntilChildExit][64304]    kqueue noted that tlu_ipctask (pid = 83801) exited with status 1
> 2010-04-12 21:05:41 -0700 Notice -[TLMMainWindowController _refreshUpdatedPackageListFromLocation:][64304]      Refreshing list of updated packages…
> 2010-04-12 21:06:03 -0700 Notice -[TLMOperation main][64304]    Successfully executed `/usr/texbin/tlmgr --machine-readable --repository http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet update --list`
> 2010-04-12 21:06:03 -0700 Notice -[TLMOperation main][64304]    tlmgr: package repository http://ftp.math.purdue.edu/mirrors/ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet
> tlmgr: no updates available
>
>
>



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George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
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