<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 10, 2021, at 10:24 , George Tourlakis <<a href="mailto:gt@cse.yorku.ca" class="">gt@cse.yorku.ca</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">I think there is something wrong with the phases of the moon, or we have here a nondeterministic piece of software (tlmgr).</div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">Ah, here we go: I may have missed this in your first log. It looks like tlmgr can't find its binaries, and is confused about the platform it's on. Is this an M1 Mac? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I think TL 2019 was frozen before Big Sur came along with different versioning and hardware. Maybe I should just keep TLU from updating a Big Sur and/or ARM Mac with TL 2019 or earlier.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">2021-07-10 14:36:19 +0000 Warning tlu_ipctask[6582]<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>/Library/TeX/texbin/tlmgr: only MacOSX is supported, not darwin 11.4 (from sw_vers -productVersion: 11.4)</div><div class="">2021-07-10 14:36:19 +0000 Warning tlu_ipctask[6582]<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>D:setup_programs: preferring system versions</div><div class="">2021-07-10 14:36:19 +0000 Warning tlu_ipctask[6582]<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>D:program curl found in path</div><div class="">2021-07-10 14:36:19 +0000 Warning tlu_ipctask[6582]<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>D:program wget not usable from path</div><div class="">2021-07-10 14:36:19 +0000 Warning tlu_ipctask[6582]<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>D:(unix) trying to set up wget, default /usr/local/texlive/2019/tlpkg/installer/wget/wget.unknown-unknown, arg --version</div><div class="">2021-07-10 14:36:19 +0000 Warning tlu_ipctask[6582]<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>D:program lz4 not usable from path</div><div class="">2021-07-10 14:36:19 +0000 Warning tlu_ipctask[6582]<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>D:(unix) trying to set up lz4, default /usr/local/texlive/2019/tlpkg/installer/lz4/lz4.unknown-unknown, arg --version</div><div class="">2021-07-10 14:36:19 +0000 Warning tlu_ipctask[6582]<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>D:program gzip found in path</div><div class="">2021-07-10 14:36:19 +0000 Warning tlu_ipctask[6582]<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>D:program xz not usable from path</div><div class="">2021-07-10 14:36:19 +0000 Warning tlu_ipctask[6582]<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>D:(unix) trying to set up xz, default /usr/local/texlive/2019/tlpkg/installer/xz/xz.unknown-unknown, arg --version</div><div class="">2021-07-10 14:36:19 +0000 Warning tlu_ipctask[6582]<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>+ :</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">thanks,</div><div class="">Adam</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>