[tex-live] Errors messages installing/updating TL2013

[Angelo Graziosi]

Il 12/07/2013 13.16, George N. White III ha scritto:
> 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.


It is *exactly* what I have seen, from a few days, on Cygwin and Mac OS 
X (on Ubuntu and Kubuntu I haven't yet upgraded to TL2013..)

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> 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.
>>
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