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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE-CH link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Hi, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Thanks a lot for the good hints. The limited /tmp folder seems to be part of the problem.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Regards, Alo<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=DE>From:</span></b><span lang=DE> George N. White III <gnwiii@gmail.com> <br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 6, 2018 11:45 AM<br><b>To:</b> TeX Live <tex-live@tug.org><br><b>Cc:</b> Alois Ignaz Krähenmann <a.i.krmann@gmail.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [tex-live] Error while installing TeXLive portable on Webserver<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 6 March 2018 at 05:43, Zdenek Wagner <<a href="mailto:zdenek.wagner@gmail.com" target="_blank">zdenek.wagner@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Hi,<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>I install TL over SSH without root access regularly (even if I know the root password I do not install TL as root). I would suspect corruption of the file during download, it sometimes happens. The best way is to try again. If you have network problems, you can use rsync to obtain your own mirror and install t from it. However, I usually have one download problem within two or three years.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Zdeněk Wagner<br><a href="http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml" target="_blank">http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml</a><br><a href="http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz" target="_blank">http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Not everyone has such reliable internet. Rsync to a private mirror is more robust<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>than a direct install.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>2018-03-05 19:26 GMT+01:00 Alois Ignaz Krähenmann <<a href="mailto:a.i.krmann@gmail.com" target="_blank">a.i.krmann@gmail.com</a>>:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><p class=MsoNormal>While installing TeXLive via SSH on a webserver (<a href="https://www.a2hosting.com/" target="_blank">https://www.a2hosting.com/</a>,<br>no root access) I get the following error:<br>- D:unpacking /tmp/JX_bOGH6eg/s6ZbGOLzLd/dvipdfmx.x86_64-linux.tar in<br>/home/nxtsolut/etc/tl<br>- untar: untarring /tmp/JX_bOGH6eg/s6ZbGOLzLd/dvipdfmx.x86_64-linux.tar<br>failed (in /home/nxtsolut/etc/tl)<br>- TLPDB::_install_package: untar failed<br>- Installation failed.<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Some sites have rather small /tmp, or have user quotas (and set TMPDIR for<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>each user to some private place). For a shared machine, allowing users to write <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>outside their own storage means one user can cause problems for others. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>It is possible some other process filled /tmp while you were installing TL. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><div><div><div><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><br>More details (full verbose log attached):<br>- Installing TeX Live 2017 from:<br><a href="http://mirror.utexas.edu/ctan/systems/texlive/tlnet" target="_blank">http://mirror.utexas.edu/ctan/systems/texlive/tlnet</a> (verified)<br>- Platform: x86_64-linux => 'GNU/Linux on x86_64'<br>- Distribution: net (downloading)<br>- Using URL: <a href="http://mirror.utexas.edu/ctan/systems/texlive/tlnet" target="_blank">http://mirror.utexas.edu/ctan/systems/texlive/tlnet</a><br><br>Thanks a lot for any hint. I am totally stuck :-(<br>Regards, Alo<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><br>Linux has ways to check free space ("man df") and logs that may not<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>be visible to ordinary users. Can you run "dmesg |tail"? Some <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>ssh accounts come with a status web page that may let you see <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>some limited info on storage and workloads.<br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>George N. White III<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>