<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 10, 2021, at 1:24 PM, George Tourlakis <<a href="mailto:gt@cse.yorku.ca" class="">gt@cse.yorku.ca</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi, <b class="">Mike</b>:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">No, my “TeX Programs” is set correctly. I just ran the update (for 2019) again on my laptop this time (Big Sur).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This time I was asked to install the “critical updates” first. I did.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Yet the update failed. So, the success on the other OS X (Mojave) was probably “random”.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">Hi, </span><b class="">Adam</b>:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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 <b class="">work</b>.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">BUT: the fmt’s are not there. Nothing listed:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Lucida Sans Typewriter";" class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Lucida Sans Typewriter";" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">[gts-AIR:~] george% ls /usr/local/texlive/2019/bin/x86_64-darwin/fmt*</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Lucida Sans Typewriter";" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">ls: No match.</span></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div 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 class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Other?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I attach log.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class="">George</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 10, 2021, at 5:14 AM, Michael Hoppe <<a href="mailto:mh@michael-hoppe.de" class="">mh@michael-hoppe.de</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">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.<br class=""><br class="">Mike<br class=""><br class="">----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting -----------<br class="">TeX FAQ: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq" class="">http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq</a><br class="">List Reminders and Etiquette: <a href="https://sites.esm.psu.edu/~gray/TeX/" class="">https://sites.esm.psu.edu/~gray/TeX/</a><br class="">List Archives: <a href="http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.macosx" class="">http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.macosx</a><br class="">                <a href="https://email.esm.psu.edu/pipermail/macosx-tex/" class="">https://email.esm.psu.edu/pipermail/macosx-tex/</a><br class="">TeX on Mac OS X Website: <a href="http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/" class="">http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/</a><br class="">List Info: <a href="https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex" class="">https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex</a><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>