[tex-live] Re: Re: Re: a big day coming up

[Sebastian Rahtz]

Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:

> Ehm ... now it seems I can't even *read* the repository :) I 
> don't know if the problem is on my side, but if I try to sync 
> my local copy I get lots of 
> 
> Can't clobber writable file [filename]
> 
> one for each file that should be updated (on my copy). I 
> haven't touched the files since the last sync, so I really 
> don't know what could be wrong ...

you have done something to amke the file writeable locally. 
do a chmod -R u-w on all of them if you have not changed them
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