Tlskript läuft ... und läuft ... und läuft ... und läuft and does not stop?

[Siep Kroonenberg]

On Thu, May 02, 2019 at 07:03:23PM +0200, Bernhard Kleine wrote:
> I had installed the pretest from the czeck mirror. I changed the
> repository to the above general mirror and the first update run
> smoothly, but for luatex.win32, which raised errors due to missing
> permissions. I then rerun tlmgr in administrator mode. However the
> "working" indicator (läuft) never again turned to idle. I had to stop
> the program from the task manager. A second test shown not in admin mode
> shows the same behaviour. What shall I do?

This may be a problem with the mirror. ATM neither the new installer
GUI nor tlshell have yet a good way to abort the attempt and let the
user pick a different mirror.

Siep Kroonenberg