[OS X TeX] TeX Live Utility 1.49 fails to update old TeXLive 2019 and leaves it unusable.

[George Tourlakis]

I forgot this:



> On Jul 10, 2021, at 1:24 PM, George Tourlakis <gt at cse.yorku.ca> wrote:
> 
> Hi, Mike:
> 
> No, my “TeX Programs” is set correctly. I just ran the update (for 2019) again on my laptop this time (Big Sur).
> 
> This time I was asked to install the “critical updates” first. I did.
> 
> Yet the update failed. So, the success on the other OS X (Mojave) was probably “random”.
> 
> Hi, Adam:
> 
> The three tests you suggested in an earlier reply to me are as follows (AFTER failed update): Two of them zz and testing the executables path work.
> 
> BUT: the fmt’s are not there. Nothing listed:
> 
>> [gts-AIR:~] george% ls /usr/local/texlive/2019/bin/x86_64-darwin/fmt*
>> ls: No match.
> 
> 
> I think there is something wrong with the phases of the moon, or we have here a nondeterministic piece of software (tlmgr).
> 
> Other?
> 
> I attach log.
> 
> Cheers,
> George
> 
> 
>> On Jul 10, 2021, at 5:14 AM, Michael Hoppe <mh at michael-hoppe.de <mailto:mh at michael-hoppe.de>> wrote:
>> 
>> FWIW: I remember to encounter a similar problem a year ago or so.  The reason for that failure was a wrongly set path in TexLive Utility.  Be sure to set the symbolic link /Library/TeX/texbin as «Tex programs» in the preferences of TLU.
>> 
>> Mike
>> 
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