[tex-live] Errors messages installing/updating TL2013

[George N. White III]

I just got a similar error from MacTeX 2013basic on Snow Leopard, using a
nearby mirror:

$ tlmgr update --list
TLDownload::get_file: response error: 500 Can't locate object method
"can_read" via package "LWP::Protocol::http::Socket" (for
http://mirror.its.dal.ca/ctan/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.xz)
TLUtils::download_file: persistent connection ok, but download failed:
http://mirror.its.dal.ca/ctan/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.xz
TLUtils::download_file: retrying with wget.
TLUtils::download_file: retry with wget succeeded:
http://mirror.its.dal.ca/ctan/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.xz
tlmgr: package repository
http://mirror.its.dal.ca/ctan/systems/texlive/tlnet
tlmgr: saving backups to /usr/local/texlive/2013basic/tlpkg/backups

Normally connections to this mirror are good, but the internet is nothing
if not unpredictable.

Running the same command a second time did not give any error.  Maybe
tlmr skips the download of texlive.tlpdb.xz if the file is very recent?

Running tlmgr update --all gave "error: 500" etc. for all but a few of 36
downloads.



On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Angelo Graziosi
<angelo.graziosi at alice.it>wrote:

> Just for completeness I want to flag that often installing or updating
> TL2013 I got messages like this (sometimes, a lot):
>
>
> TLDownload::get_file: response error: 500 Can't use an undefined value as
> a symb
> ol reference (for ftp://ftp.tug.org/texlive/**tlnet/archive/tap.doc.tar.xz<ftp://ftp.tug.org/texlive/tlnet/archive/tap.doc.tar.xz>
> )
> TLUtils::download_file: persistent connection ok, but download failed:
> ftp://ftp
> .tug.org/texlive/tlnet/**archive/tap.doc.tar.xz<http://tug.org/texlive/tlnet/archive/tap.doc.tar.xz>
> TLUtils::download_file: retrying with wget.
> TLUtils::download_file: retry with wget succeeded:
> ftp://ftp.tug.org/texlive/tln
> et/archive/tap.doc.tar.xz
>
> This occurs not only using the main TL repository but also using CTAN
> mirrors. It occurs also on different systems (Cygwin, Mac OS X,...)
>
>
> Ciao,
>  Angelo.
>



-- 
George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia
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