On 5/09/2018 9:45 p.m., Uwe Stöhr wrote:
As of today the update servers are working again. However, one needs a
workaround because the buggy DLL of MiKTeX prevents the updates from
being applied.
it seems that the bug affects all users of Windows 7 while Win 10 is
not affected. For the affected users there is a workaround but you
need admin permissions and some knowledge:
- open a Windows console as admin (type in "cmd" in the Windows Start
field, and right-click on it to run it with admin privileges)
- execute these 2 commands subsequently:
initexmf --admin --update-fndb
and
initexmf --admin --mklinks --force
- close the Windows console
- now start the MiKTeX console
- choose there to restart with admin privileges
- check for updates and if there are any apply them
From my point of view I see no other option than to provide a new LyX
for Windows installer that repairs broken system by executing these
commands in the background after LyX was installed. This way users
with problems can just run the Win installer again and get a working
LyX back in a minute without the need to know about console commands etc.
@developers: Maybe now you see that the Win installer must do more and
forcing a MiKTeX update is necessary as you can see in this case. We
cannot say "not our fault". Yes, LyX is not to blame but what matters
is if users can use LyX. In my case I wanted to write an urgent letter
with LyX but could not use it and had to use LibreOffice instead.
regards Uwe
I'm on windows 7 and MiKTeX 2.9. MiKTeX update failed about a week ago
and I couldn't compile to pdf, nor did instant preview work. The
following day I tried updating again, and everything worked as it
should, and as it has done since (including 11 packages updated just a
few minutes ago). MiKTeX updates from ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de which
seems a bit odd for someone in New Zealand but MiKTeX selected this
itself with no help from me. (I think using the "random package on the
internet" option in the console.) I've now also, after the update,
compiled a complicated master-child document to pdf, so everything is
working as it ought.
Andrew
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