[tex-live] Install failed on Windows 8 (*.win32 packages involved)
Denis Bitouzé
dbitouze at wanadoo.fr
Mon Feb 24 23:29:18 CET 2014
Le lundi 24/02/14 à 17h53,
Siep Kroonenberg <siepo at cybercomm.nl> a écrit :
> I did a minimal single-user install
Thanks.
> under w8.1 and had no trouble.
Sigh... ;)
> At that line the installer tries to create a file. Apparently it has
> no problems creating the directory:
>
> 1403 mkdirhier( $tlpod );
> 1404 open(TMP,">$tlpod/".$tlpobj->name.".tlpobj") ||
> 1405 die "$0: open tlpobj " . $tlpobj->name . "failed: $!";
>
> Maybe a timing problem? You could test this by inserting `sleep 1;'
> after mkdirhier.
Well, one second added for each (I guess) one of the 2791 packages to be
installed: what a sooooo slow install... ;)
But you're right: that did the trick!
I guess hard coding this extra sleep wouldn't be the best solution to
this problem. Do you see a more clever solution?
> Is the hd an ssd?
HD, I guess.
Thanks!
--
Denis
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