[tex-live] [TL09 and Vista] Problem with new tlmgr

[T T]

2009/12/13 TeXWorld <texworld at laposte.net>:
> Hello,
>
> When I try to update my packages with tlmgr, I'm told that tlmgr must be
> updated first alone.
> After that, the operation fails and I have to download and execute (in root
> mode) update-tlmgr-latest.exe
> After, I execute tlmgr again and that's the same thing, no change : tlmgr
> has to be updated again.
>
> Clue : in the end of executing update-tlmgr-latest.exe, I have the message
> "Completed" and another short message (not very easy to read it) :
> "Cannot chdir to J:: Permission denied at C:\Program
> Files\texlive\2009\texmf\scripts\texlive\tlmgr.pl line 3856"
>
> Is it a problem with TL09 or Vista or both ? How can I solve this ?
>

Do you run tlmgr --self with admin rights? In what way it fails? Does
it still work after the failure? If yes, please provide us with the
tlmgr revision (--version) number. If you had sufficient write access,
there should also be an update log in C:\Program
Files\texlive\2009\temp\update-self.log, which might reveal additional
details. Please send it if you can.

The problem is most likely that you have TL under %ProgramFiles%, so
any updates (not only to tlmgr itself) will require elevation to have
write access there. Note, that we don't use %ProgramFiles% by default
to avoid this kind of complications.

As for why update-tlmgr-latest.exe fails I have no idea yet (and why
does it want to chdir to J:?).

Cheers,

Tomek