[tex-live] [siepo at cybercomm.nl: Re: Error on TexLive 2013 installation - Can't spawn "cmd.exe"]

[Helge Knoop]

:-) perfect!!!  thank you soo much for helping me! everything is working
fine again! I added the bin/win32 of my texlife distribution to the
batchfile you wrote for me and now everything is working perfectly again!
no need to reinstall my Texlife 2013 anymore.
thank you and best regards
Helge

Am 13.10.2013 15:28, schrieb Siep Kroonenberg:
> On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 12:47:02PM +0200, Helge Knoop wrote:
>> Sorry, I didn't get the last emails. Thank you very much for helping me!
>> Calling set gives me: Path=C:\Perl64\site\bin;C:\Perl64\bin  (full
>> set call below)
>> under Control panel > user accounts > change my environment
>> variables the system side PATH is the same and for the user Helge
>> the only env vars are TEMP and TMP.
>> I did already reboot. How is the PATH env var supposed to look like?
>> could it be, that an update messed these env var up?
>> to be honest, I am a bit scared to change these, cause afterwards I
>> might have more problems than now. :-(
> A dropbox link with a couple of batchfiles:
> https://www.dropbox.com/sh/weomrrti212fry4/Jdc8u-JSXj
>
> path_fix_user.cmd can be run as regular user, and sets the user path
> to something like a proper system path. At least, this is the system
> path on my extremely base-bones 64-bits Windows 7 virtual machine,
> plus your two Perl bin directories. This may be enough to get many
> things working again.
>
> Try to find a local knowledgeable person to fix the system path.
> If there is no such person among your acquaintances, you can run the
> other batchfile path_fix_system.cmd as administrator.
>
>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
>> Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
>>
>> C:\Users\Helge>set
>> ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\ProgramData
>> APPDATA=C:\Users\Helge\AppData\Roaming
>> asl.log=Destination=file
>> CommonProgramFiles=C:\Program Files\Common Files
>> CommonProgramFiles(x86)=C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files
>> CommonProgramW6432=C:\Program Files\Common Files
>> COMPUTERNAME=HELGES-XMG
>> ComSpec=C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe
>> FP_NO_HOST_CHECK=NO
>> HOMEDRIVE=C:
>> HOMEPATH=\Users\Helge
>> IDL_DLM_PATH=C:\Program Files\NCAR\VAPOR\bin
>> LOCALAPPDATA=C:\Users\Helge\AppData\Local
>> LOGONSERVER=\\HELGES-XMG
>> NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=8
>> OS=Windows_NT
>> Path=C:\Perl64\site\bin;C:\Perl64\bin
>> PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.MSC
>> PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=AMD64
>> PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=Intel64 Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9, GenuineIntel
>> PROCESSOR_LEVEL=6
>> PROCESSOR_REVISION=3a09
>> ProgramData=C:\ProgramData
>> ProgramFiles=C:\Program Files
>> ProgramFiles(x86)=C:\Program Files (x86)
>> ProgramW6432=C:\Program Files
>> PROMPT=$P$G
>> PSModulePath=C:\Windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules\
>> PUBLIC=C:\Users\Public
>> PYTHONHOME=C:\Program Files\NCAR\VAPOR\lib\python2.7
>> SESSIONNAME=Console
>> SystemDrive=C:
>> SystemRoot=C:\Windows
>> TEMP=C:\Users\Helge\AppData\Local\Temp
>> TMP=C:\Users\Helge\AppData\Local\Temp
>> USERDOMAIN=Helges-XMG
>> USERNAME=Helge
>> USERPROFILE=C:\Users\Helge
>> VAPOR_HOME=C:\Program Files\NCAR\VAPOR\
>> VAPOR_SHARE=C:\Program Files\NCAR\VAPOR\share
>> windir=C:\Windows
>> windows_tracing_flags=3
>> windows_tracing_logfile=C:\BVTBin\Tests\installpackage\csilogfile.log
>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++