<html><body><div>George,</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>We need to see the complete TeX Live Utility log from that update session to understand how it failed. The section you sent just shows that building formats failed.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>thanks,</div><div>Adam</div><div><br>On July 8, 2021 at 11:00 AM, Herbert Schulz <herbs@wideopenwest.com> wrote:<br><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="msg-quote"><div class="_stretch"><span class="body-text-content"><br><br><blockquote class="quoted-plain-text" type="cite">On Jul 8, 2021, at 11:16 AM, George Tourlakis <gt@cse.yorku.ca> wrote:</blockquote><blockquote class="quoted-plain-text" type="cite">...</blockquote><blockquote class="quoted-plain-text" type="cite">However it fails to update my old TeXLive 2019 and leaves it unusable. ...</blockquote><br>Howdy,<br><br>How were you trying to update a TeX Live 2019? What repository did you use? Was the Big Sur laptop also using TeX Live 2019? What is the `TeX Programs' item in TLU's Preferences set to?<br><br>Good Luck,<br><br>Herb Schulz<br><a href="mailto:herbs@wideopenwest.com" data-mce-href="mailto:herbs@wideopenwest.com">herbs@wideopenwest.com</a><br><br><br>----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting -----------<br>TeX FAQ: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq" data-mce-href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq">http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq</a><br>List Reminders and Etiquette: <a href="https://sites.esm.psu.edu/~gray/TeX/" data-mce-href="https://sites.esm.psu.edu/~gray/TeX/">https://sites.esm.psu.edu/~gray/TeX/</a><br>List Archives: <a href="http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.macosx" data-mce-href="http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.macosx">http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.macosx</a><br> <a href="https://email.esm.psu.edu/pipermail/macosx-tex/" data-mce-href="https://email.esm.psu.edu/pipermail/macosx-tex/">https://email.esm.psu.edu/pipermail/macosx-tex/</a><br>TeX on Mac OS X Website: <a href="http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/" data-mce-href="http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/">http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/</a><br>List Info: <a href="https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex" data-mce-href="https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex">https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex</a><br></span></div></div></blockquote></div></body></html>