[tex-live] Win 7: installationproblems, Perl stopped working

Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wagner at gmail.com
Fri Nov 11 11:04:53 CET 2011


2011/11/11 Lars Madsen <daleif at imf.au.dk>:
> Norbert Preining wrote, On 2011-11-11 08:32:
>>
>> On Do, 10 Nov 2011, Steffen Videbæk Petersen wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Wehn we run install-tl.bat we get a message saying
>>>>
>>>> "Perl has stopped working"
>>>
>>> install-tl-advanced.bat works without any problems. It's not a fix but a
>>>  workaround and may aid debugging.
>>
>> That *really* makes a difference? THe perl that is used is the same?!?
>> Hmmm, and the only difference is the installer code. Strange.
>> I would like to know what triggered that difference.
>>
>
> I had one interesting observation, yesterday.
>
> If we click on install-tl.bat we would get the mentioned Perl error.
>
> <full path>/perl.exe -e "print 'test'"
>
> printed test as expected.
>
> Running
>
> install-tl.bat -no-gui
>
> actually started something, it complained that it could not access the
> mirrors (the PC was not online at the time).
>
> After getting it online, we tried
>
> install-tl.bat -no-gui
>
> again, but it just seem to be hanging (under wget trying to access the
> mirrors)
>
It might be the antivirus/firewall problem as was discussed here some
time ago. Have you tried to disable antivirus and/or firewall?
> --
>
> /daleif
>



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