Problem with TLShell Tex Live Manager

[Uwe Siart]

"Mr. Sus via tex-live" <tex-live at tug.org> writes:

> When I open TLShell Tex Live Manager, it shows "back end gone" and
> forces me to quit (as shown in the picture). The
> update-tlmgr-latest.exe does not work. How can I solve this problem?

Are you on Win and do you have MSYS (or similar) installed?

I observe the very same error when MSYS binaries are on PATH. They
interfere with some other binaries that are used by TLShell.

Regards,
Uwe