[tex-live] Curious error message in tlmgr.

[George N. White III]

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 8:35 AM, S. venkataraman <svenkat at ignou.ac.in> wrote:

> Since I couldn't update the texlive 2009
> distribution in my laptop, I decided to have
> a shot at my desktop. I still have jaunty jackalope,
> ubuntu 9.04 on my desktop.  I had no network problems
> whatsoever.
>  tlmgr behaved well
> and everything looks  perfect but for
> puzzling error message at the end.

I hope others can shed some light on the error, but it is good news that you
were able to get updates.    Do laptop and desktop use different networks,
or does this indicate a problem with the network on the laptop?   In any case,
all it takes is one system that can do updates and you can copy the TL tree
to other machines to bring them "up to date".   Even if you use the symbolic
links method on the laptop this will work, assuming you don't need a binary
that wasn't in the original install (in which case you might need to manually
create a missing link).

What do you get if you run the command:

"fmtutil-sys --byhyphen
/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-var/tex/generic/config/language.def"

manually?   On my system (MacOSX) pdfetex and xetex fmts are generated.


> ****************output*****************
> venkat at as-9134c1888ca4:~$ sudo tlmgr gui
> [sudo] password for venkat:
> Sorry, try again.
> [sudo] password for venkat:
> Loading local TeX Live Database
> This may take some time, please wait!
> Completed.
> Loading remote TeX Live Database
> This may take some time, please wait!
> Completed.
> venkat at as-9134c1888ca4:~$ sudo tlmgr update --self
> tlmgr: package repository
> http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/dante/systems/texlive/tlnet/
> [1/2, ??:??/??:??] update: texlive.infra [240k] (17495 -> 17958) ... done
> [2/2, 00:11/00:14] update: texlive.infra.i386-linux [71k] (17447 -> 17740)
> ... done
> tlmgr: package log updated at
> /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-var/web2c/tlmgr.log
> running mktexlsr ...
> done running mktexlsr.
> venkat at as-9134c1888ca4:~$ sudo tlmgr gui
> Loading local TeX Live Database
> This may take some time, please wait!
> Completed.
> Loading remote TeX Live Database
> This may take some time, please wait!
> Completed.
> Executing action update
> skipping forcibly removed package combine
> [1/169] auto-remove: unroman
> [2/169] auto-remove: garamond
> [3/169] auto-remove: optima
> [4/169] auto-remove: bidi
> [5/169] auto-remove: marigold
> [6/169] auto-remove: coronet
> [7/169] auto-remove: clarendo
> [8/169] auto-remove: typespec
> [9/169] auto-remove: lettrgth
> [10/169] auto-remove: arrayjob
> [11/169] auto-remove: atqolive
> [12/169] auto-remove: albertus
> [13/169] auto-remove: univers
> [14/169, ??:??/??:??] update: FAQ-en [4943k] (16865 -> 17760) ... done
> [15/169, 01:27/40:55] update: MemoirChapStyles [669k] (15878 -> 18158) ...
> done
> [16/169, 01:38/40:36] update: achemso [239k] (17482 -> 17855) ... done
> ---more one same lines
> [164/169, 43:27/43:44] update: collection-mathextra [1k] (17175 -> 17829)
> ... done
> [165/169, 43:28/43:45] update: collection-pictures [1k] (17205 -> 18115) ...
> done
> [166/169, 43:30/43:47] update: collection-plainextra [1k] (16578 -> 17826)
> ... done
> [167/169, 43:31/43:48] update: collection-publishers [1k] (17205 -> 17743)
> ... done
> [168/169, 43:32/43:49] update: collection-xetex [1k] (16579 -> 17780) ...
> done
> running mktexlsr ...
> done running mktexlsr.
> running updmap-sys ...
> done running updmap-sys.
> regenerating fmtutil.cnf in /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-var
> running fmtutil-sys --byengine mpost ...
> done running fmtutil-sys --byengine mpost.
> regenerating language.dat
> running fmtutil-sys --byhyphen
> /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-var/tex/generic/config/language.dat ...
> done running fmtutil-sys --byhyphen
> /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-var/tex/generic/config/language.dat.
> regenerating language.def
> running fmtutil-sys --byhyphen
> /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-var/tex/generic/config/language.def ...
>
> fmtutil-sys --byhyphen
> /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-var/tex/generic/config/language.def failed
> (status 1), output:
> fmtutil: no format depends on hyphen file
> `/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-var/tex/generic/config/language.def'.
> ******************************************************
> What can be the reason? I ran the command
> sudo tlmgr update --self
> before running the full update.
> I tried to find the current version using
> tlmgr --version.
> The output is
> ***********************************
> tlmgr --version
> tlmgr revision 17811 (2010-04-12 06:05:03 +0200)
> tlmgr using installation: /usr/local/texlive/2009
> TeX Live (http://tug.org/texlive) version 2009
> ************************************************
> Is the problem indicated by the error message
> serious? I have checked my installation by running
> pdflatex on a file.  There was no problem.
> Best,
> S. Venkataraman.
>



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