[tex-live] Cannot contact mirror.ctan.org

[Robert Alessi]

Hi Denis,

AFAIK this has nothing to do with your firewall configuration. This is
rather related to the French localization. Try this for example:

--> LANG=C tlmgr update --all

-- 
Robert

On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 05:59:29PM +0100, Denis Bitouzé wrote:
> Le samedi 25/12/10 à 12h36,
> Denis Bitouzé <dbitouze at wanadoo.fr> a écrit :
> 
> > It seems to work like a charm!
> 
> Well, maybe I told a bit too quickly... If I'm right, no trouble with
> wget:
> 
> $ wget http://mirror.ctan.org -O /dev/null 2>&1
> --2011-01-07 17:45:10--  http://mirror.ctan.org/
> Résolution de mirror.ctan.org (mirror.ctan.org)... 142.132.30.225
> Connexion vers mirror.ctan.org
> (mirror.ctan.org)|142.132.30.225|:80...connecté. requête HTTP
> transmise, en attente de la réponse...302 Found Emplacement:
> http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/mirrors/ctan/ [suivant]
> --2011-01-07 17:45:10--
> http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/mirrors/ctan/ Résolution de
> distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr (distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr)...
> 134.157.176.20 Connexion vers distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr
> (distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr)|134.157.176.20|:80...connecté. requête
> HTTP transmise, en attente de la réponse...200 OK Longueur: 5319 (5,2K)
> [text/html] Sauvegarde en : «/dev/null»
> 
> 100%[==================================================================================================>]
> 5 319       --.-K/s   ds 0,07s   
> 
> 2011-01-07 17:45:11 (70,7 KB/s) - «/dev/null» sauvegardé [5319/5319]
> $
> 
> but:
> 
> tlmgr --repository=http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet update
> --self --all
> cannot contact mirror.ctan.org, returning a backbone server!
> tlmgr: package repository
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet
> TLDownload::get_file: response error: 500 Can't connect to
> www.tex.ac.uk:80 (connect: Connexion refusée) permanent server
> connection set up, but downloading did not succeed!Retrying with wget.
> Unable to download the remote TeX Live database, but found a local copy
> so using that.
> 
> You may want to try specifying an explicit or different CTAN mirror;
> see the information and examples for the -repository option at
> http://tug.org/texlive/doc/install-tl.html
> (or in the output of install-tl --help).
> 
> tlmgr: saving backups to /usr/local/texlive/2010/tlpkg/backups
> ANUfinalexam: local: 20613, source: 15878 (reverse, keep)
> [...]
> zwpagelayout: local: 20828, source: 15878 (reverse, keep)
> [1/115] auto-remove: parskip
> [...]a
> [72/115] auto-remove: gillcm
> [73/115, ??:??/??:??] auto-install: acmtrans [161k]
> TLDownload::get_file: response error:
>   500 Can't connect to www.tex.ac.uk:80 (connect: Connexion refusée)
> permanent server connection set up, but downloading did not
> succeed!Retrying with wget. Downloading 
>    http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/archive/acmtrans.tar.xz
> did not succeed, please retry.
> /usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/i386-linux/tlmgr: couldn't install new
> package acmtrans
> [...]
> [115/115, 00:00/00:00] auto-install: zefonts [283k]
> Downloading 
>    http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/archive/zefonts.tar.xz
> did not succeed, please retry.
> /usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/i386-linux/tlmgr: couldn't install new
> package zefonts tlmgr: package log updated
> at /usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-var/web2c/tlmgr.log running
> mktexlsr ... done running mktexlsr.
> running updmap-sys --nomkmap --nohash --disable starfont.map ...
> done running updmap-sys --nomkmap --nohash --disable starfont.map.
> running updmap-sys --nomkmap --nohash --disable droid.map ...
> done running updmap-sys --nomkmap --nohash --disable droid.map.
> running updmap-sys --nomkmap --nohash --disable bbold.map ...
> done running updmap-sys --nomkmap --nohash --disable bbold.map.
> running updmap-sys --nomkmap --nohash --disable OrnementsADF.map ...
> done running updmap-sys --nomkmap --nohash --disable OrnementsADF.map.
> running updmap-sys --nomkmap --nohash --disable comfortaa.map ...
> done running updmap-sys --nomkmap --nohash --disable comfortaa.map.
> running updmap-sys ...
> done running updmap-sys.
> 
> Thanks in anticipation!
> -- 
> Denis

-- 
Robert Alessi
Université de Poitiers
Faculté des Lettres et Langues, Département d'Études grecques
CNRS UMR 8167 Orient et Méditerranée - Université de Paris IV Sorbonne
Laboratoire "Médecine grecque": édition et traduction des médecins antiques