[OS X TeX] Tex Live Updater and X11

[Maxwell, Adam R]

On 12/30/08 09:40, "Adam M. Goldstein" <a.m.goldstein at mac.com> wrote:

> OK, I got an X11 window. It says this:
> 
>> Verifying archive integrity... All good.
>> Uncompressing TeX Live Manager
>> Updater 
>> .............................................................................
>> .............................................................................
>> ...........................................
>> ./runme.sh: updating in /usr/local/texlive/2008...
>> ./runme.sh: done.
>> Press Return to close this window...
>> 
> 
> How did I get this?
> 
> -Start TLU
> -Respond to message that there were critical updates available but
> that the tex live installers needed to be installed first (I think
> that's what it said). I think Herb S. saw this message too and was
> asking about it on another thread. (By "respond" I mean, push "OK))

I think the button is actually titled "Update", but I know what you mean :).

> Here's the output in the TLU window.

[...]

>> 2008-12-30 12:35:47 -0500 Error TLMAuthorizedOperation[42252] 
>> tlmgr_cwrapper checking in:  tlmgr pid = 42271

...and right after this, you should have seen all the output that went to
that xterm!  It looks like I can fix this by passing --nox11 to the update
script; by default it uses some heuristics to see if it should launch an
xterm.

Thanks for the detailed report; that made it really clear where to look for
the problem.

regards,
Adam