[OS X TeX] TeXLive Utility hangs

[Herbert Schulz]

On Mar 4, 2011, at 4:37 PM, Alan Munn wrote:

> On Mar 4, 2011, at 5:31 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote:
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>> On Mar 4, 2011, at 4:22 PM, Alan Munn wrote:
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>>> On Mar 4, 2011, at 5:15 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote:
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>>>> On Mar 4, 2011, at 4:13 PM, Alan Munn wrote:
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>>>>> On Mar 4, 2011, at 4:01 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote:
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>>>>>> On Mar 4, 2011, at 2:24 PM, Alan Munn wrote:
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>>>>>>> I've just updated my installation and TeXLive Utility seems to have hung while doing its (last?) step:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> fmutil-sys ...
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Will I screw everything up if I force it to quit?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I guess I can try and see; are there other alternatives?
>>>>>>> 
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>>>>>> How long have you been waiting? Some format building takes a while, depending upon processor speed, etc.
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>>>>> Well, I sent my message at 2:24, ran some errands and at 5:13 it's still chugging away...!  I guess I don't have much choice but to kill it.
>>>>> 
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>>>> Do you know what format(s) it was building? Was it -byfmt or -byengine and which format or engine?
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>>> The progress window displays:
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>>> 2011-03-04 14:54:18 -0500 tlu_ipctask	running fmtutil-sys --no-error-if-no-format --byengine tex ...
>>> 
>>> Oddly enough, if I select the line in the progress window and paste it it says:
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>>> 2011-03-04 14:54:18 -0500 Error tlu_ipctask[35529]	running fmtutil-sys --no-error-if-no-format --byengine tex ...
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>> Hmmmm... try to compile a file using tex (on the command line, not through TeXShop since it uses etex instead of tex). Also try latex even though that really is running through pdftex in dvi mode.
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> Well I forced TLUtility to quit, and then started an interactive TeX session which worked fine.  So I guess I'll hope everything is ok.
> 
> Should I re-run the fmutil command?  (Although I don't know what the entire command is since the status window doesn't actually give the whole line.)
> 
> Alan
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> -- 
> Alan Munn
> amunn at gmx.com

Howdy,

Actually I think you have the whole command line there. The ``ellipses'' are there just to show you that it's working and the next line would say it's completed. You'll have to run with sudo so

sudo fmtutil-sys --no-error-if-no-format --byengine tex

should do it. However, you don't know how many commands after that were NOT run.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)