TeX Live and MacTeX ⇒ Problem with the Berlin FTP Server

[marek_step]

Hello all!

All this day my TeX Live Utility tries to update a "critical update". But it finishes with an error as if this FTP server does not exist.

The errors are these.

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2013-07-18 18:06:07 +0000 Notice -[TLMMainWindowController _handleListUpdatesFinishedNotification:][53413]	Critical updates detected: (
    "texlive.infra"
)
2013-07-18 18:06:45 +0000 Notice -[TLMMainWindowController _isCorrectDatabaseVersionAtURL:][53413]	Checking database version in case preferences have been changed…
2013-07-18 18:06:45 +0000 Notice -[TLMMainWindowController _updateAllPackagesFromRepository:][53413]	Beginning infrastructure update from ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/tex/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet
2013-07-18 18:06:45 +0000 Notice -[TLMInfraUpdateOperation _synchronouslyDownloadURL:toPath:][53413]	Downloading URL: ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/tex/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet/update-tlmgr-latest.sh
2013-07-18 18:06:45 +0000 Notice -[TLMInfraUpdateOperation download:willSendRequest:redirectResponse:][53413]	Download redirected to ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/tex/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet/update-tlmgr-latest.sh, expecting 0 bytes.
2013-07-18 18:07:45 +0000 Notice -[TLMInfraUpdateOperation download:didFailWithError:][53413]	Download failed: Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1001 "The request timed out." UserInfo=0x10027bd40 {NSUnderlyingError=0x100663a90 "The request timed out.", NSErrorFailingURLStringKey=ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/tex/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet/update-tlmgr-latest.sh, NSErrorFailingURLKey=ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/tex/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet/update-tlmgr-latest.sh, NSLocalizedDescription=The request timed out.}
Failed URL was: ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/tex/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet/update-tlmgr-latest.sh
2013-07-18 18:07:45 +0000 Notice -[TLMInfraUpdateOperation main][53413]	Removed temp directory "/var/folders/4d/wt6q5mv93tqc32_qcnk_xv2h0000gn/T/TLMInfraUpdateOperation.0hTq5C"

Are there alternative servers for the TeX Live update?


Thank you
marek

[marek_step]

I resolved this problem in making following command into my X11 shell:

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tlmgr update --self

Not sure was was going on there. But it resolved my problem.


Thanx marek

[cgnieder]

You could have loaded another mirror:

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tlmgr --repository  mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/

Regards