Error in Installation Process

[M. Münch]

OK,

I had missed a re: for the first post:
https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2023-September/049456.html

With

install-tl-windows.bat -texdir M:\2023 -gui text

installation succeeded.

Idea: When installing Windows 11 this month, MS no longer allowed a 
local account but insisted on using an MS-account. (You can log out of 
that, but only after the installation of Windows has finished.) The name 
of my MS-account it my legal name, and that has a hyphen, thus 
"username" in C:\Users\username\... also has a hyphen. The username of 
the OP (in September), who signed as Yiyun (Michael) Sun, might also be 
something different than "michael". Could that be the cause of the trouble?

Martin

On 08.11.2023 13:39, M. Münch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> new Windows 11 installation, trying to install TL 2023.
> 
> install-tl-windows.bat -gui
> 
> Hitting the "change" button for installation root directory gives this 
> error:
> 
> 
> error writing "file1f7cdbd5ce0": broken pipe
> error writing "file1f7cdbd5ce0": broken pipe
>      while executing
> "chan puts $::inst "checkdir""
>      (procedure "update_full_path" line 6)
>      invoked from within
> "update_full_path"
>      (procedure "texdir_setup" line 88)
>      invoked from within
> "texdir_setup"
>      invoked from within
> ".tdirb invoke "
>      invoked from within
> ".tdirb instate !disabled { .tdirb invoke } "
>      invoked from within
> ".tdirb instate pressed { .tdirb state !pressed; .tdirb instate 
> !disabled { .tdirb invoke } } "
>      (command bound to event)
> 
> 
> This is similar to
> https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2023-September/049455.html
> 
> OK, I tried this then:
> 
> install-tl-windows.bat -texdir M:\2023\ -gui
> 
> That is accepted, but when hitting the "install" button, I get
> 
> Error in startup script
> error writing "file247d0101380": broken pipe
>    while executing
> "chan puts $::inst "startinst""
>    (procedure "run installer" line 5)
>    invoked from within
> "run_installer"
>    (procedure "main_prog" line 144)
>    invoked from within
>    (file "V:\tlpkg\installer\install-tl-gui.tcl" line 2117)
> 
> I tried the on-line-install and the DVD-install, the "regular" install 
> and the installation as admin and also a portable install. I tried not 
> to change any path or anything, but always get a "broken pipe".
> 
> I do have a back-up of M:\, so I copied the backup to M:\, added 
> M:\2023\bin\windows\ to the system path, and can compile my documents. 
> This misses file associations and start menu entries and the package 
> manager GUI aborts with error "Back end gone. Last command: version", 
> and most importantly, without solving the issue I will not be able to 
> install TL 2024 when it arrives.
> 
> I had been able to install TL 2023 under Windows 11 last year (disk 
> formatted, so no left-overs), so I suspect that TL is fine but current 
> Windows is blocking something. Might even be some Windows settings.
> 
> Any ideas, please?
> 
> Martin