[OS X TeX] Problem with TeXLive Utility

[Alan Munn]

On Jan 20, 2010, at 10:19 AM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote:

> On 01/20/10 06:16, "Alan Munn" <amunn at gmx.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi, trying to update today I get the following message:
>>
>> 2010-01-20 09:13:52 -0500 Notice -[TLMInfraUpdateOperation
>> _downloadUpdateScript][71642] *** ERROR *** Downloaded file does  
>> not start
>> with #!
>> 2010-01-20 09:13:52 -0500 Notice -[TLMInfraUpdateOperation
>> _downloadUpdateScript][71642] *** ERROR *** First line is: "<! 
>> DOCTYPE html
>> PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
>> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">"
>
> Whatever mirror you're using is giving you an HTML page instead of
> update_tlmgr_latest.sh.  The preceding lines should give you the  
> full URL.
>
> Is this the ctan.binkerton.com mirror, by any chance?   
> Mirror.ctan.org just
> sent me there, and they're giving a stupid viewer page that wraps  
> the shell
> script.  They fixed this last time, but I might have to blacklist that
> mirror in TLU.
>
Sorry, I didn't notice a line in the error message that included an  
actual URL.  Now trying things again, it works with mirror  
ibiblio.org.  If the error arises again I'll know what to look for.

Thanks

Alan

> -- 
> Adam
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Alan Munn
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