[tex-live] Updating tlmgr on Windows 7

[T T]

Please, stay on the list.

On 27 January 2011 12:06, Martin Schröder <martin at oneiros.de> wrote:
> Am 27. Januar 2011 12:53 schrieb T T <t34www at googlemail.com>:
>>> Pressing the "Aktualisieren aller Pakete" in the _main_ window
>>> just leads to tlmgr doing _something_ while blinking heavily and then
>>> shutting itself down.
>>
>> And after that it should open a command window and complete the update.  Did it?
>
> No.
>
> It actually starts blinking and then crashes when I press OK. :-(

Not sure what you mean by blinking. On the taskbar? And where do you
press OK?  Any error message?

> But before it crashes it tells me I should call "tlmgr update --self".

What does it say exactly and where (error dialog, command window)?

> At the next start it wants to update itself again. :-(
>
>> There should be a log file from the update:
>> C:\texlive\2010\temp\update-self.log.  Send it to me and I will try to
>> figure out what went wrong (if anything).
>
> No logfile. :-(

That is pretty bad.  It means that tlmgr doesn't even start the update.

Can you start the gui from the command line with:

  tlmgr -v gui > "%temp%\tlmgr-debug.log"

Do the update and send us the tlmgr-debug.log from the temp directory
(type %temp% in the address bar of windows explorer to navigate to
that dir).

Cheers,

Tomek