[tex-live] installation of TeXLive pretest failed

[Artemio González López]

On Apr 30, 2016, at 11:48 AM, Artemio González López <artemiog at mac.com> wrote:
> 
> At the end of the network installation of TeXLive pretest (on a 27” 2011 iMac running El Capitan 10.11.4) there was the following error message:
> 
> Time used for installing the packages: 538:31
> running mktexlsr /usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist ...
> mktexlsr: Updating /usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/ls-R... 
> mktexlsr: Done.
> writing fmtutil.cnf to /usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
> TLUtils::_create_config_files: /usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/web2c/fmtutil-hdr.cnf missing!
> Giving up. at tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm line 2741.
> 
> It seems then that the installation didn’t complete successfully. What could I do to fix this error (short of starting from scratch!)?

Just to add to my previous post, I found the following messages towards the end of the installation:

TLUtils::check_file: removing /tmp/LDo1KoUyDu/texlive-msg-translations.tar.xz, sizes differ:
TLUtils::check_file:   TL=112184, arg=112252
TLPDB::_install_package: downloading did not succeed
Installing [2842/3231, time/total: 08:20:21/09:28:53]: texlive-pl [1068k]
Installing [2843/3231, time/total: 08:20:37/09:28:51]: texlive-ru [762k]
Installing [2844/3231, time/total: 08:20:41/09:28:41]: texlive-scripts [107k]
Installing [2845/3231, time/total: 08:20:44/09:28:43]: texlive-scripts.x86_64-darwin [1k]
Installing [2846/3231, time/total: 08:20:45/09:28:44]: texlive-sr [944k]
Installing [2847/3231, time/total: 08:20:57/09:28:40]: texlive-zh-cn [835k]
Installing [2848/3231, time/total: 08:21:01/09:28:29]: texlive.infra [346k]
TLUtils::check_file: removing /tmp/KFaiuv4NpI/texlive.infra.tar.xz, sizes differ:
TLUtils::check_file:   TL=224372, arg=224236
TLPDB::_install_package: downloading did not succeed

Thanks again,

Artemio


Artemio Gonzalez Lopez
artemiog at icloud.com