MacTex Live 2015 - TLU Internal Error

[ghost]

Everytime i open TLU in my brand new MacTex Live 2015 installation nothing happens under "updates".
Package list however works fine.
If i do click the "home" icon, I always get the following error (see screenshot attached).

[ghost]

If i do click "show details" that's what pops up

Exception Name: NSInternalInconsistencyException
Description: Invalid parameter not satisfying: _installedYear != TLMDatabaseUnknownYear
User Info: (null)

0 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff9064103c __exceptionPreprocess + 172
1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x00007fff91a4e76e objc_exception_throw + 43
2 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff90640e1a +[NSException raise:format:arguments:] + 106
3 Foundation 0x00007fff9c2018cb -[NSAssertionHandler handleFailureInMethod:object:file:lineNumber:description:] + 195
4 TeX Live Utility 0x000000010003b948 -[TLMEnvironment _getValidServerURL:repositoryYear:] + 167
5 TeX Live Utility 0x000000010003bd91 -[TLMEnvironment validServerURL] + 41
6 TeX Live Utility 0x000000010000334a -[TLMMainWindowController _goHome] + 213
7 TeX Live Utility 0x0000000100009bb8 -[TLMMainWindowController goHome:] + 27
8 libsystem_trace.dylib 0x00007fff9cbdfcd7 _os_activity_initiate + 75
9 AppKit 0x00007fff90acaeb1 -[NSApplication sendAction:to:from:] + 452
10 AppKit 0x00007fff90ae0946 -[NSControl sendAction:to:] + 86
11 AppKit 0x00007fff90ae0862 __26-[NSCell _sendActionFrom:]_block_invoke + 131
12 libsystem_trace.dylib 0x00007fff9cbdfcd7 _os_activity_initiate + 75
13 AppKit 0x00007fff90ae07bf -[NSCell _sendActionFrom:] + 144
14 libsystem_trace.dylib 0x00007fff9cbdfcd7 _os_activity_initiate + 75
15 AppKit 0x00007fff90adecb3 -[NSCell trackMouse:inRect:ofView:untilMouseUp:] + 2821
16 AppKit 0x00007fff90b3734f -[NSButtonCell trackMouse:inRect:ofView:untilMouseUp:] + 770
17 AppKit 0x00007fff90add366 -[NSControl mouseDown:] + 714
18 AppKit 0x00007fff910472dc -[NSWindow _reallySendEvent:isDelayedEvent:] + 14125
19 AppKit 0x00007fff909d6c86 -[NSWindow sendEvent:] + 470
20 AppKit 0x00007fff909d3212 -[NSApplication sendEvent:] + 2504
21 AppKit 0x00007fff908fcb68 -[NSApplication run] + 711
22 AppKit 0x00007fff90879244 NSApplicationMain + 1832
23 TeX Live Utility 0x0000000100001533 main + 455
24 TeX Live Utility 0x0000000100001364 start + 52
25 ??? 0x0000000000000001 0x0 + 1

[guoye-zhang]

I believe the problem is in TLMEnvironment.m:286

+ (BOOL)_getInstalledYear:(TLMDatabaseYear *)installedYear isDevelopmentVersion:(BOOL *)isDev tlmgrVersion:(NSInteger *)tlmgrVersion

The output for tlmgr --version in MacTeX 2015 is

tlmgr revision 37488 (2015-05-23 19:58:40 +0200)
tlmgr using installation: /usr/local/texlive/2015

which cannot be parsed by above method.

[ghost]

And i do have got the same output for tmlgr --version in Terminal

[amaxwell]

Well, the good news is that there are no updates available for you. The bad news is that this is a bug in TeX Live or MacTeX packaging that was not present in pretest versions, and I'll have to come up with a workaround.

[amaxwell]

A workaround, thanks to Bruno Voisin: create a text file at /usr/local/texlive/2015/release-texlive.txt with the following content:

TeX Live (http://tug.org/texlive) version 2015

This file is public domain.  It is read by install-tl --version,
tlmgr --version, and texconfig conf, and a final line appended with
the precise version number by tl-update-images during a build.

The following blank line at the end helps avoid confusing output when
used directly from svn, so don't delete it.

Note the blank line at the end.

[ghost]

I didn't have that file so i created it. But anyway, it does not seem to work.
The first screenshot is the home screen. I don't even see any repository in the upper bar.
I try to click the "home" icon and the error message appears.
Only if i do Configure -> Manage Repositories
and then i choose the one from Washington (USA) it does not give any errors and check for updates with "no updates found" (and that's fine i guess, since MacTex 2015 is pretty new).
When i close and reopen TLU, same story again. Blank repository line and so on.

[guoye-zhang]

@gothicpurple It works for me.
Just set the repo as the main repo (I'm using http://mirrors.rit.edu/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet in the USA, and it has texlive 2015).

[guoye-zhang]

@gothicpurple Also, make sure that the texbin directory in Preferences is pointed to /Library/TeX/texbin

[amaxwell]

The texbin directory change only applies to a future version of Mac OS X, but it should be okay to make now.

@gothicpurple What is the output of tlmgr --version in the Terminal? The final line of content should be TeX Live (http://tug.org/texlive) version 2015.

[ghost]

Hi there, thanks for your help. I do have the same texbin directory in Preferences. Fantastic.
I can easily navigate through repositories and yours does work too (i found the Washington instead, that works too). It does check for updates correctly. But my two problem remains:

1. even if i can check correctly for the updates, as soon as i click the "home" icon next to the repository URL the error in the first message screenshot still appears
2. if i close/reopen TLU the repository URL shows blank. Just like he does not save the URL i set as "home repository"

@amaxwell the complete output is
tlmgr revision 37488 (2015-05-23 19:58:40 +0200)
tlmgr using installation: /usr/local/texlive/2015
"""TeX Live (http://tug.org/texlive) version 2015
"""

maybe some bad formatting in the txt? O.o
Mine is (line numbered)

1)"""TeX Live (http://tug.org/texlive) version 2015
2)
3)This file is public domain. It is read by install-tl --version,
4)tlmgr --version, and texconfig conf, and a final line appended with
5)the precise version number by tl-update-images during a build.
6)
7)The following blank line at the end helps avoid confusing output when
8)used directly from svn, so don't delete it.
9)
10)"""
11)

[amaxwell]

@gothicpurple as I wrote do not include the quote marks in the file. To be more clear: there should be zero quote marks in the file.

[ghost]

Yes indeed. I fixed it though and everything is working fine.

Although i didn't read the "do not include" stuff because it was an edit on your comment i reckon.
Too bad i didn't refreshed the page. Now that i did, i can see that.

Thanks a lot guys. Problem solved!

[amaxwell]

@gothicpurple No, it was not an edit on my comment. I have just now changed the formatting to perhaps be more clear.

[eeide]

For what it's worth: The workaround described above worked for me today, on a system running OS X 10.9.5.

Today I removed MacTeX 2014 and installed MacTeX 2015. When I ran the TeX Live Utility to configure it and update it, I encountered a weird error message: "The repository at ... has TeX Live 2015, but you have TeX Live 18446744073709551615 installed."

A little Googling led me to a deleted Stack Exchange question, which led me to this GitHub issue, which led me to the workaround. (I used Google cache to read the deleted question, so the trail was a bit harder than usual to follow....)

[xiaoweiz]

I downloaded MacTex 2015 today, whose version is dated "14 June 2015" on https://tug.org/mactex/mactex-download.html. I had the same issue. Thanks for the workaround. Is there a plan for bug-fix release on the distributed package?

[ronbannon]

Thanks to amaxwell's publishing Bruno Voisin text file workaround, I finally got my TLU to work!

[amaxwell]

@xiaoweiz I suspect the 14 June 2015 version has the fix applied, but you may have ended up with an earlier one, depending on what mirror you actually got from that link. It will take several days for all CTAN sites to sync up.

[zhuzelong]

It is confirmed that the issue has been fixed by the workaround in this page. The latest version is 14 June for MacTeX 2015 and 13 June for BasicTeX 2015.

See Early Release Problem in tug.

[KurtPfeifle]

I was pointed to this site by a comment underneath a question I asked yesterday on StackOverflow:

• TeXLive-2015: Updating packages on OS X Mavericks does not work with 'TeX Live Utility.app'

Please read about the details there (or tell me to open a new issue here -- I'll also do that by myself if I do not get any response to this comment, though).

My problem is similar to what comes out in comments above, but with the following difference:

• the "workaround file" /usr/local/texlive/2015/release-texlive.txt exists on my system already, with exactly the recommended content,
• but that workaround file does not make the TeX Live Utility work as expected.

[amaxwell]

@KurtPfeifle If you have that file, this cannot be the same issue. Open a new bug report and include the entire contents of the TLU log (choose Log from the Window menu, select all rows, copy).

[amaxwell]

This was fixed on the TL side, and the latest TLU beta no longer relies on parsing that command.