[tex-live] Texlive installation hangs on Vista

[kap4lin]

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:53 PM, T T <t34www at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi Kap4Lin,
>
> Thanks for investigating this problem for me. The fix is in svn now
> and should be available with the next round of updates.

Great... So, would that correspond to an update for install-tl.zip file?

>
> Cheers,
>
> Tomek
>
> 2010/1/10 kap4lin <kap4lin at gmail.com>:
>> On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 9:27 PM, T T <t34www at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> 2010/1/8 kap4lin <kap4lin at gmail.com>:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The output in command prompt suggest a problem in the menu group
>>>>>> (directory) creation. Most likely there is no write access there. My
>>>>>> guess would be that the installer runs in the user mode but tries to
>>>>>> create shortcuts for all users (requires admin). No idea why this
>>>>>> could happen, though. Siep, Norbert, any ideas?
>>>>
>>>> Yes, that is the case.
>>>
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>>> D:running postaction=install for dviout.win32
>>>> C:\Users\Public\DOWNLO~1\INSTAL~1\INSTAL~1\install-tl: mkdir(//)
>>>> failed, goodbye: Permission denied
>>>
>>> Well, not quite. It tries to create // directory and chokes on it
>>> obviously. My guess is that USERPROFILE is set to a network location
>>
>> Yes!! These are on a different public server server...
>>
>>> and our code mishandles network paths. If that's the case than I know
>>> how to fix it. It would be great if you could confirm that. Just start
>>> regedit, navigate to:
>>>
>>>  HKCU/software/microsoft/windows/currentversion/explorer/shell folders
>>>
>>> and tell me what's under Programs key.
>>
>> \\publicserver\profiles$\kap4lin\start menu\Programs
>>
>> HTH.
>> --
>> Regards
>> Kap4Lin
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>>
>>
>



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