[tex-live] No errors during virgin install

Siep Kroonenberg siepo at cybercomm.nl
Fri Sep 5 10:43:43 CEST 2008


On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 12:33:22AM +0200, Staszek Wawrykiewicz wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Philip TAYLOR wrote:
> 
> > > I assume that you have some more lines in your install-tl.log _after_
> > >  "Running fc-cache -v -r", right?
> > 
> > Er, only what was sent : that was a direct copy/paste
> > of everything from "Installing: zwgetfdate" to end.
> > Is there something missing, just after "Running fc-cache -v -r"
> > and before "running mktexlsr F:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf-dist F:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf" ?
> 
> Do you mean output in cmd window or install-tl.log file?
> My install-tl.log contains more messages for all postinstall things.
> 
> > > No, I have always that problem when installing from my local mirror.
> > > I do not understand what does it mean "re-permissioning the entire TeX..."
> > 
> > F:\TeX is the root of everything TeXxie on this system.
> > Earlier today I could not run "Install-TL", "Wget",
> > "Perl" or anything else : "Access is denied".  To
> > get around this, I had to chance from "Simple file
> > sharing" to (tacit) "Complex file sharing", and
> > then recursively grant myself (a system administrator)
> > full access to F:\TeX and everything thereunder.
> 
> Very strange: you are the system administrator and you cannot write?!
> Is that vista or xp? I really hate windows for all those madness.
> 
> -- 
> Staszek Wawrykiewicz
> StaW at gust.org.pl

I also have later failures of fc-cache, not just during
post-install. This isn't news.

And I have had `access denied' errors under vista on my very own
temp directory.  Windows is just plain voodoo.

-- 
Siep Kroonenberg


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