Tlmgr suddenly fails

[Alois Steindl]

Dear Siep,
thank you very much for your information!
I started wish with tlshell.tcl from PowerShell with Administrator 
privileges. The option '--verify-repo=none' didn't make any difference 
(tried it with tlshell.exe and wish.exe)
In tlshell.tcl I switched on the debugging and received the message in 
the log file

run_cmds "{info --only-installed --data 
name,localrev,cat-version,category,shortdesc}"
TCL: error exit

By inserting do_debug commands immediately before and after this call in 
get_packages_info_local, I could see that this command seems to be the 
culprit. The do_debug immediately after the command wasn't reached.

At this point I am stuck; I cannot find out, where the info command is 
defined and why it crashes.
(Also tried to hide the binary info.exe from the cygwin package.)

With kind wishes
Alois

Am 12.01.2023 um 21:30 schrieb Siep Kroonenberg:
>
> https://tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Master/source/tlgui/tlshell_UAC.zip
>
> But I do not think this will help you; it is just a wrapper invoking
> wish.exe with tlshell.tcl, if necessary restarting to acquire admin
> privileges. If you get a dialog box "backend gone" then wish.exe
> could at least start up.
>
> What happens if you start tlshell with an option '--verify-repo=none'?
>
> Maybe you can get some useful info from the sysinternals utilities
> (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/).
>