Possible regression

[skull-squadron]

Crashes on launch

TeX Live Utility: 1.54 macOS: 13.4.1 (c) (22F770820d) Architecture: Mac M1 TeX distribution: brew install texlive

Speculative causes: a. PEBKAC: Doesn't play nice with texlive (rather than MacTeX) b. Regression similar to #113

Stack trace

``` Exception Name: NSInternalInconsistencyException Description: Invalid parameter not satisfying: _installedYear != TLMDatabaseUnknownYear User Info: { NSAssertFile = "TLMEnvironment.m"; NSAssertLine = 791; } 0 CoreFoundation 0x0000000186b5f154 __exceptionPreprocess + 176 1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x000000018667e4d4 objc_exception_throw + 60 2 Foundation 0x0000000187b12a98 -[NSCalendarDate initWithCoder:] + 0 3 TeX Live Utility 0x000000010213db40 -[TLMEnvironment _getValidServerURL:repositoryYear:fromURL:] + 848 4 TeX Live Utility 0x000000010213dc8c -[TLMEnvironment validServerURLFromURL:] + 100 5 TeX Live Utility 0x0000000102104d68 -[TLMMainWindowController _goHome] + 308 6 TeX Live Utility 0x00000001021054e4 -[TLMMainWindowController showWindow:] + 504 7 TeX Live Utility 0x0000000102103a0c -[TLMAppController _continueApplicationDidFinishLaunching] + 280 8 CoreFoundation 0x0000000186adb180 __CFNOTIFICATIONCENTER_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_AN_OBSERVER__ + 148 9 CoreFoundation 0x0000000186b76eec ___CFXRegistrationPost_block_invoke + 88 10 CoreFoundation 0x0000000186b76e34 _CFXRegistrationPost + 440 11 CoreFoundation 0x0000000186aac4cc _CFXNotificationPost + 704 12 Foundation 0x0000000187a0a8f4 -[NSNotificationCenter postNotificationName:object:userInfo:] + 88 13 Foundation 0x0000000187a7ac64 __NSThreadPerformPerform + 264 14 CoreFoundation 0x0000000186ae663c __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_SOURCE0_PERFORM_FUNCTION__ + 28 15 CoreFoundation 0x0000000186ae65d0 __CFRunLoopDoSource0 + 176 16 CoreFoundation 0x0000000186ae6340 __CFRunLoopDoSources0 + 244 17 CoreFoundation 0x0000000186ae4f48 __CFRunLoopRun + 828 18 CoreFoundation 0x0000000186ae44b8 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 612 19 HIToolbox 0x000000019032ec40 RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 292 20 HIToolbox 0x000000019032ea7c ReceiveNextEventCommon + 648 21 HIToolbox 0x000000019032e7d4 _BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInModeWithFilter + 76 22 AppKit 0x0000000189d05d44 _DPSNextEvent + 636 23 AppKit 0x0000000189d04ee0 -[NSApplication(NSEvent) _nextEventMatchingEventMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 716 24 AppKit 0x0000000189cf9344 -[NSApplication run] + 464 25 AppKit 0x0000000189cd0794 NSApplicationMain + 880 26 TeX Live Utility 0x0000000102102bac main + 436 27 dyld 0x00000001866aff28 start + 2236 ```

[amaxwell]

As in #113, I'll need the log to see what's really going on. Sorry for the trouble; it shouldn't matter how or where you install TeX Live.

[skull-squadron]

Here's the Apple crash report.

And the decoded content of ~/Library/Application Support/TeX Live Utility/Log Messages.plist.

..../texlive/20230313_2/share/texmf-var/web2c/tlmgr.log is empty.

If there's a log created somewhere else, let me know what to snag.

[amaxwell]

Sorry, I should have been more specific. Launch TLU and bring up its log window (Window menu), and grab the output from one of the failed sessions. If you can't launch it, the file lives in ~/Library/Application Support/TeX Live Utility.

[skull-squadron]

Here be logs (sorry, fresh out of dragons)

[amaxwell]

Wow, that's not ideal. These two lines point to a busted install. Does homebrew really put TL in that directory? The permissions are (or were) inconsistent, which means they're a mix of user and root, and there's no texlive.tlpdb. Can you successfully run tlmgr update --list in Terminal?

2023-08-02 01:44:48 +0000 Warning tlu_ipctask[65152] chmod: /Users/ba/.homebrew/Cellar/texlive/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb: No such file or directory

2023-08-02 01:44:49 +0000 Notice -[TLMAppController _handleFixPermissionsFinishedNotification:][65137] Failed to fix permissions. Many other things will now fail.