Is the server down?

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#1

Hi.
I was trying to use tectonic for my tex file and and it looks like I can’t connect to the server. is the server down?
I had no issues using tectonic yesterday.

This is the output I get.

$ tectonic main.tex 
note: this is a BETA release; ask questions and report bugs at https://tectonic.newton.cx/
note: connecting to https://archive.org/services/purl/net/pkgwpub/tectonic-default
note: resolved to https://tectonic.newton.cx/bundles/tlextras-2018.1r0/bundle.tar
note: downloading index https://tectonic.newton.cx/bundles/tlextras-2018.1r0/bundle.tar.index.gz
error: 
caused by: couldn't fetch
caused by: unexpected HTTP response to URL https://tectonic.newton.cx/bundles/tlextras-2018.1r0/bundle.tar.index.gz: 404 Not Found

Thanks.

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#2

Hi,
I’m also having this exact issue, so it’s not just you. On my computer, it keeps retrying, but the server is returning a 404 so I’d expect it’s not something that will be fixed by trying again. I’m on Tectonic 0.1.15.
Ben

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#3

I’m not sure if the problem was fixed on the server end or something I did got it working, but I am able to compile PDFs again. In case anyone else is still having the problem, I installed texlive-most (https://www.archlinux.org/groups/any/texlive-most/), used pdflatex to compile my document a few times, and now it works. Perhaps it found the dependency on my computer instead of looking for it online?

#4

I did not do anything, but it started working for me too.
the links in the errors are not giving a 404 now.

If somebody fixed the server, thanks!

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