<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">hardware: Dell laptop</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">system type: 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">operating system: Win 10 home</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">version: 1909</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">OS build: 18363.815<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">here's the message I get when starting:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">Installing to: C:/program-files/texlive/2020<br>.\ls-R: The handle is invalid.<br>C:/Users/Ronald/AppData/Local/Temp/nsj9649.tmp/install-tl-20200430/install-tl: <br>open(>C:/program-files/texlive/2020/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.tmp) failed: <br>Permission denied at C:/Users/Ronald/AppData/Local/Temp/nsj9649.tmp/install-tl-20200430/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLPDB.pm line 592, <STDIN> line 110.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">history:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">I downloaded and ran the installer last week.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">When I examined the logs from my test suite,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">I noticed that my texmf-local\ls-R had not been updated.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">I went to ...\2020\bin\win32</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">and ran hexhash.exe as administrator</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">here's the log:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">Cannot open C:/program-files/texlive/texmf-local/ls-R to write.<br>Cannot open C:/program-files/texlive/2020/texmf-config/ls-R to write.<br>Cannot open C:/program-files/texlive/2020/texmf-var/ls-R to write.<br>Cannot open C:/program-files/texlive/2020/texmf-dist/ls-R to write.<br>texhash: Done.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">note: the various 2020/*/ls-R files were correctly installed and have correct date+time stamp. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">the datestamp on texmf-local/ls-R has not changed from my last updates earlier in the year.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></div>what I have done: <br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">* searched for ways to run an *.exe, as administrator</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">  : done; reran install</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">* enabled write permissions for my install folder:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">  
C:/program-files/texlive <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">  : unable to update read/write permissions for texmf-local<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">Q: what next?<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">tia</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace"></div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Ron Fehd  macro maven<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace"> Atlanta GA</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div>