[tex-live] FYI: Update of tlmgr failed in MacTeX

[Juergen Fenn]

Am 08.07.2015 um 18:03 schrieb Adam R. Maxwell <amaxwell at mac.com>:

> 
>> On Jul 7, 2015, at 13:49 , Juergen Fenn <juergen.fenn at gmx.de> wrote:
>> 
>> texlive.infra did not install from neither FTP Fernuni Hagen nor FU Berlin using TeX Live Utility 1.21.
>> Please see the error log below.
> 
> The log says that it timed out, so it's probably a
> transient server problem. Can you download this
> manually?
> 
> ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/tex/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet/update-tlmgr-latest.sh

Yes, I can:

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xxx:Desktop xxx$ wget ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/tex/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet/update-tlmgr-latest.sh
--2015-07-08 18:11:14--  ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/tex/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet/update-tlmgr-latest.sh
           => »update-tlmgr-latest.sh«
Auflösen des Hostnamen »ftp.fu-berlin.de (ftp.fu-berlin.de)«... 130.133.3.130
Verbindungsaufbau zu ftp.fu-berlin.de (ftp.fu-berlin.de)|130.133.3.130|:21... verbunden.
Anmelden als anonymous ... Angemeldet!
==> SYST ... fertig.    ==> PWD ... fertig.
==> TYPE I ... fertig.  ==> CWD (1) /tex/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet ... fertig.
==> SIZE update-tlmgr-latest.sh ... 4872109
==> PASV ... fertig.    ==> RETR update-tlmgr-latest.sh ... fertig.
Länge: 4872109 (4,6M) (unmaßgeblich)

update-tlmgr-latest 100%[=====================>]   4,65M  1,25MB/s   in 4,0s   

2015-07-08 18:11:19 (1,17 MB/s) - »update-tlmgr-latest.sh« gespeichert [4872109]

xxx:Desktop xxx$ 
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but I still cannot update using TLU, I still get a timeout:

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2015-07-08 16:12:29 +0000 Notice -[TLMMainWindowController _handleListUpdatesFinishedNotification:][12129]	Critical updates detected: (
    "texlive.infra"
)
2015-07-08 16:12:34 +0000 Notice -[TLMMainWindowController _isCorrectDatabaseVersionAtURL:][12129]	Checking database version in case preferences have been changed…
2015-07-08 16:12:34 +0000 Notice -[TLMMainWindowController _updateAllPackagesFromRepository:][12129]	Beginning infrastructure update from ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/tex/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet
2015-07-08 16:12:35 +0000 Notice -[TLMInfraUpdateOperation _synchronouslyDownloadURL:toPath:][12129]	Downloading URL: ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/tex/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet/update-tlmgr-latest.sh
2015-07-08 16:12:35 +0000 Notice -[TLMInfraUpdateOperation download:willSendRequest:redirectResponse:][12129]	Download redirected to ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/tex/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet/update-tlmgr-latest.sh, expecting 0 bytes.
2015-07-08 16:13:35 +0000 Notice -[TLMInfraUpdateOperation download:didFailWithError:][12129]	Download failed: Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1001 "The request timed out." UserInfo=0x6000000f5900 {NSUnderlyingError=0x600000440ea0 "The request timed out.", NSErrorFailingURLStringKey=ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/tex/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet/update-tlmgr-latest.sh, NSErrorFailingURLKey=ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/tex/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet/update-tlmgr-latest.sh, NSLocalizedDescription=The request timed out.}
Failed URL was: ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/tex/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet/update-tlmgr-latest.sh
2015-07-08 16:13:35 +0000 Notice -[TLMInfraUpdateOperation main][12129]	Removed temp directory "/var/folders/x8/hx5s_s6s5mv_ylcxxhctz4840000gn/T/TLMInfraUpdateOperation.knCIfT"
2015-07-08 16:13:39 +0000 Notice -[TLMLogWindowController awakeFromNib][12129]	Loaded log window controller
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So, I've just tried a third repository, rrzn.uni-hannover.de, to no avail:

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2015-07-08 16:21:58 +0000 Notice -[TLMInfraUpdateOperation download:didFailWithError:][12466]	Download failed: Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1001 "The request timed out." UserInfo=0x6080002e3980 {NSUnderlyingError=0x608001a48370 "The request timed out.", NSErrorFailingURLStringKey=ftp://ftp.rrzn.uni-hannover.de/pub/mirror/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/update-tlmgr-latest.sh, NSErrorFailingURLKey=ftp://ftp.rrzn.uni-hannover.de/pub/mirror/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/update-tlmgr-latest.sh, NSLocalizedDescription=The request timed out.}
Failed URL was: ftp://ftp.rrzn.uni-hannover.de/pub/mirror/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/update-tlmgr-latest.sh
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Thanks for looking into this.
I crosspost to OS X TeX in case other users are affected by the problem.

I could try to upgrade tlmgr from the command line now, but I think it should work from TLU, shouldn't it?

Regards,
Jürgen.