[tex-live] tlmgr not working after a "failed" tlcritical update

[Erwan Le Pennec]

    I reply to myself... I've managed to survive by reinstalling the 
packages from the normal repository using the option --reinstall.

    Yours,

          Erwan


Erwan Le Pennec wrote:
>    Dear all,
>
>    I've encountered a strange behavior with the "tlcritical" 
> repository. I've launched an update and it failed to download 
> "texlive.infra" and "texlive.infra.i386-linux" with the errors 
> below... Since then, tlmgr does not work anymore and exits
> with
> Can't locate object method "option" via package "TeXLive::TLPDB" at 
> /opt/texlive/2008/bin/i386-linux/tlmgr line 1053.
>
>    I think tlmgr has been only partially upgraded and as a result is 
> not functioning anymore... What can I do to help solving this issue?
>
>     Yours,
>
>             Erwan
>
> tlmgr -location ftp://tug.org/texlive/tlcritical update --all
>
> tlmgr: installation location ftp://tug.org/texlive/tlcritical
> update: bin-texlive (11048 -> 11102) ... running post remove action 
> for bin-texlive
> running post install action for bin-texlive
> done
> update: texlive.infra (11050 -> 11102) ... Downloading
>   ftp://tug.org/texlive/tlcritical/archive/texlive.infra.doc.tar.lzma
> did not succeed, please retry!
>
>
> Installation of new version of texlive.infra did fail, trying to unwind!
> Restoring old package state succeeded.
> done
> update: texlive.infra.i386-linux (11050 -> 11054) ... Downloading
>   
> ftp://tug.org/texlive/tlcritical/archive/texlive.infra.i386-linux.tar.lzma 
>
> did not succeed, please retry!
>
>
> Installation of new version of texlive.infra.i386-linux did fail, 
> trying to unwind!
> Restoring old package state succeeded.
> done
> tlmgr: package log updated at /opt/texlive/2008/texmf-var/web2c/tlmgr.log
> running mktexlsr