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

[Robin Fairbairns]

Denis Bitouzé <dbitouze at wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> Le lundi 24/01/11 à 14h28,
> Robert Alessi <alessi at robertalessi.net> a écrit :
> 
> > Given that without LANG=C your tlmgr returns to a backbone server, you
> > should try first doing:
> > 
> > --> tlmgr update --self
> 
> Still (Wed, 26 Jan 2011 07:17:49 +0100):
> 
> # /usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/i386-linux/tlmgr update --self
> tlmgr: package repository
> ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/dante/systems/texlive/tlnet
> tlmgr: saving backups to /usr/local/texlive/2010/tlpkg/backups
> tlmgr: no updates for tlmgr present.
> tlmgr: no updates available
> 
> and:
> 
> # /usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/i386-linux/tlmgr
> --repository=http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/
> update --self
> tlmgr: package repository
> http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/
> TLDownload::get_file: response error:
>   500 Can't connect to tug.ctan.org:80 (connect: Connexion refusée)
> permanent server connection set up, but downloading did not
> succeed!Retrying with wget.
> TLDownload::get_file: response error:
>   500 Can't connect to tug.ctan.org:80 (connect: Connexion refusée)
> permanent server connection set up, but downloading did not
> succeed!Retrying with wget.
> Cannot load TeX Live database from
> http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/
> at /usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/i386-linux/tlmgr line 4554.
> 
> Am I damned? ;)

probably not, but you're being obstructed somewhat...

you don't appear in my logs, as far as i can tell.

you've failed to connect to cambridge or colchester ctans, using http,
and to ftp.gwdg.de using ftp.  sounds to me as if your connection is
being malign: do you have iptables running, or is there a dragon-
inspired proxy somewhere on your line?

can you use the ftp _command_ or a web browser to connect?  (i assume
so...)  if so, there's something that's stopping connections from a
particular program (the tlmgr script), which is very much what things
like iptables do.

that conclusion is pretty much "grasping at straws", but a lot of other
possibilities have been eliminated...

robin