[tex-live] Error on TexLive 2013 installation - Can't spawn "cmd.exe"

[Helge Knoop]

Hello,

I have used Texlive 2013 for the last 3 month and it worked fine. 
Yesterday (10.10.2013) after a Windows Update, nothing worked anymore 
and my TexStudio Editor was not able to find any of the binaries 
anymore. I was not able to find a solution and tried to reinstall 
Texlive 2013. But after I started the Install-tl-advanced.bat the 
following error message occurred! (error message below)

I emailed laze.collin at tukaani.org as is is suggested by the error and he 
said, that I have to contact the Texlive developers. (his mail also below)

I found the hint, that there is "no nl in perl" under TLUtils.pm line 
2375 and installed activeperl 5.16.3 build 1603 (64Bit) and added 
package NL and TK but still doesn't work.

My system is: Windows 7 sp1 64Bit with intel core i7-3740QM @2,7GHz 16GB 
RAM

Can you please help me find a way to use Texlive 2013 again! I am just 
about to finish my bachelor thesis and really depending on finding a 
solution for this problem! thank you very much.

regards from Hannover, Germany
H. Knoop



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PATH=D:\Users\Helge\Desktop\install-tl\install-tl-20131011\tlpkg\tlperl\bin;C:\s 

trawberry\c\bin;C:\strawberry\perl\site\bin;C:\strawberry\perl\bin
"D:\Users\Helge\Desktop\install-tl\install-tl-20131011\install-tl" -gui 
perltk
Can't spawn "cmd.exe": No such file or directory at 
D:/Users/Helge/Desktop/insta
ll-tl/install-tl-20131011/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm line 2373.
TeXLive::TLUtils::setup_programs (w32) failed at 
D:/Users/Helge/Desktop/install-
tl/install-tl-20131011/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm line 2375.
D:\Users\Helge\Desktop\install-tl\install-tl-20131011\tlpkg\installer\xz\xzdec.e 

xe --help failed (status 65280): No such file or directory
Output is:
Usage: xzdec [OPTION]... [FILE]...
Uncompress files in the .xz format to the standard output.

   -c, --stdout       (ignored)
   -d, --decompress   (ignored)
   -k, --keep         (ignored)
   -q, --quiet        specify *twice* to suppress errors
   -Q, --no-warn      (ignored)
   -h, --help         display this help and exit
   -V, --version      display the version number and exit

With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

Report bugs to <lasse.collin at tukaani.org> (in English or Finnish).
XZ Utils home page: <http://tukaani.org/xz/>

Can't spawn "cmd.exe": No such file or directory at 
D:/Users/Helge/Desktop/insta
ll-tl/install-tl-20131011/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm line 2373.
TeXLive::TLUtils::setup_programs (w32) failed at 
D:/Users/Helge/Desktop/install-
tl/install-tl-20131011/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm line 2375.
D:\Users\Helge\Desktop\install-tl\install-tl-20131011\tlpkg\installer\wget\wget. 

exe --version failed (status 65280): No such file or directory
Output is:
GNU Wget 1.11.4

Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Originally written by Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic at xemacs.org>.
Currently maintained by Micah Cowan <micah at cowan.name>.

D:\Users\Helge\Desktop\install-tl\install-tl-20131011\install-tl: Goodbye.
Press any key to continue . . .
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mail from lasse.collin at tukaani.org:
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On 2013-10-11 Helge Knoop wrote:

> But after I started the Install-tl-advanced.bat the
> following error message occurred suggesting to e-mail you this bug!
> (error message below)

The problem is in TeXLive which uses xzdec from XZ Utils. I'm the
maintainer of XZ Utils which is why my email is in xzdec --help output.
I don't work on TeXLive and I don't know what the bug in TeXLive is.

I have gotten similar emails a few times before so you aren't alone with
your problem. The error message is confusing so it's understandable
that a few people have emailed me about it. Anyway, please contact the
TeXLive developers to get help with the problem.

-- Lasse Collin | IRC: Larhzu @ IRCnet & Freenode 
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