TLshell aborts with message "Back end gone"

[Alois Steindl]

Am 21.12.2022 um 17:39 schrieb Uwe Siart:
> On my Windows 10 box TLshell (tlmgr GUI) aborts with the message "Back
> end gone". I can't tell since when the problem exists since I routinely
> use tlmgr on the command line. But as a rough guess I would say that it
> still worked one week ago.
>
Hello Uwe,

I also encountered that problem. On my system it also tells me, "Last 
command: version"

I tried it also with an 2021 installation and saw the same behaviour.

When I accessed the drive containing texlive by Samba on a Tablet, the 
tlshell program seemed to work (it couldn't make any changes due to 
missing permissions). But after that also the tlshell on the tablet 
behaved similarly. After some time the problems on the tablet vanished 
and it works normally again.

It seems, that it interferes with some other program in Windows, even if 
I start it with an empty PATH variable.

Fortunately the tlmgr command line version works without problems.


Kind regards

Alois