[tex-live] TeXLive-2018 fails to update across firewall

[Blumenthal, Uri - 0553 - MITLL]

$ kpsewhich -all fmtutil.cnf
$ ll /usr/local/texlive/2018/texmf-dist/web2c/fmtutil.cnf 
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  4357 Apr 16 23:08 /usr/local/texlive/2018/texmf-dist/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
$ ll ~/tl/
ls: /Users/ur20980/tl/: No such file or directory
$ tlmgr generate _fmtutil
Cannot open /usr/local/texlive/2018/texmf-dist/web2c/fmtutil.cnf for writing: Permission denied at /usr/local/texlive/2018/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm line 2894.
$ sudo -E tlmgr generate _fmtutil
Enter PIN for 'Certificate For PIV Authentication (Uri the Great)': 
To make the newly-generated fmtutil.cnf take effect, run fmtutil-sys --all.
$ sudo -E fmtutil-sys --all
fmtutil [WARNING]: resetting $HOME value (was /Users/ur20980) to root's actual home (/var/root).
fmtutil: fmtutil is using the following fmtutil.cnf files (in precedence order):
fmtutil: fmtutil is using the following fmtutil.cnf file for writing changes:
fmtutil:   /usr/local/texlive/2018/texmf-config/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
fmtutil [INFO]: writing formats under /usr/local/texlive/2018/texmf-var/web2c
Use of uninitialized value $whatarg in concatenation (.) or string at /Library/TeX/texbin/fmtutil line 443.
fmtutil [INFO]: did not find entry for all=, skipped
fmtutil [INFO]: Total formats: 0
fmtutil [INFO]: exiting with status 0
$ kpsewhich -all fmtutil.cnf
$
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Regards,
Uri

> On Jun 21, 2018, at 19:58, Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>> 2018-06-21 22:20:01 +0000 Notice -[TLMDatabase _downloadDatabaseHead][77662]     Checking the repository version.  Please be patient.
>> 
>> 2018-06-21 22:20:01 +0000 Notice -[TLMDatabase _downloadDatabaseHead][77662]     Downloading at least 2048 bytes of tlpdb for a version check…
>> 
>> 2018-06-21 22:20:01 +0000 Notice -[TLMDatabase _downloadDatabaseHead][77662]     Downloaded 65536 bytes of tlpdb for version check
> 
> It seems it *did* download something ...
> 
>> 
>> 2018-06-21 22:20:01 +0000 Notice -[TLMDatabase _downloadDatabaseHead][77662]     Downloading at least 2048 bytes of tlpdb for a version check…
>> 
>> 2018-06-21 22:20:31 +0000 Notice -[TLMDatabase connection:didFailWithError:][77662]  Failed to download tlpdb for version check http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet : Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1001 "The request timed out." UserInfo={NSUnderlyingError=0x604000247050 {Error Domain=kCFErrorDomainCFNetwork Code=-1001 "The request timed out." UserInfo={NSErrorFailingURLStringKey=http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb, NSErrorFailingURLKey=http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb, _kCFStreamErrorCodeKey=-2102, _kCFStreamErrorDomainKey=4, NSLocalizedDescription=The request timed out.}}, NSErrorFailingURLStringKey=http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb, NSErrorFailingURLKey=http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb, _kCFStreamErrorDomainKey=4, _kCFStreamErrorCodeKey=-2102, NSLocalizedDescription=The request timed out.}
> 
> And then it failed, request timed out.
> 
> But I don't actually see tlmgr doing anything here. It seems to me
> that TLU and not tlmgr is doing this.
> 
> 
>> $ fmtutil --sys --listcfg
>> fmtutil: fmtutil is using the following fmtutil.cnf files (in precedence order):
>> 
> 
> THat is bad. What does
>  kpsewhich -all fmtutil.cnf
> say? In my case there is
>  /home/norbert/tl/2018/texmf-dist/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
> 
> So where is your
>  /usr/local/texlive/2018/texmf-dist/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
> If it is not there, please run
>  tlmgr generate _fmtutil
> and then try the kpsewhich call again, it should be there.
> 
> Best
> 
> Norbert
> 
> --
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