miktex-misc: package is broken

[gnued]

I had to re-install Miktex today on WIndows 10 from basic-miktex-21.6-x64. One of the updates is "required" after installation and that is "miktex-misc", however it crashes the console.

The relevant log message seems to be: "2021-06-23 12:44:12,851+0200 WARN miktex-console.packagemanager - miktex-misc: package is broken"

I've tried the obvious namely uninstall, delete Miktex registry entries and directories and reboot, re-install. Error persists.

Any ideas?

[marvin-littlewood]

I have the same problem on Windows 10 (Home, 64-bit, build 19042). miktex-console.log says:

2021-06-24 10:26:46,463+0100 INFO  miktex-console.packagemanager - installing package miktex-misc
2021-06-24 10:26:46,464+0100 INFO  mainwindow - downloading https://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/mirrors/CTAN/systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/miktex-misc.tar.lzma...
2021-06-24 10:26:46,465+0100 INFO  miktex-console.packagemanager - going to download https://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/mirrors/CTAN/systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/miktex-misc.tar.lzma
2021-06-24 10:26:46,594+0100 INFO  mainwindow - 0.02 MB, 1.44 Mbit/s
2021-06-24 10:26:46,644+0100 INFO  mainwindow - extracting files from miktex-misc.tar.lzma...
2021-06-24 10:26:47,687+0100 INFO  miktex-console.core - start process: initexmf --mkmaps
2021-06-24 10:26:57,700+0100 INFO  miktex-console.core - start process: mpm --register-components --verbose
2021-06-24 10:26:58,258+0100 INFO  miktex-console.core - start process: initexmf --update-fndb --disable-installer --verbose
2021-06-24 10:27:04,713+0100 INFO  miktex-console.core - start process: initexmf --force --mklinks --disable-installer --verbose
2021-06-24 10:27:42,667+0100 INFO  miktex-console.core - start process: initexmf --mkmaps --mklangs --disable-installer --verbose
2021-06-24 10:27:51,899+0100 INFO  miktex-console.core - start process: initexmf --register-shell-file-types --disable-installer --verbose
2021-06-24 10:27:52,834+0100 INFO  mainwindow - MiKTeX Console needs to be closed
2021-06-24 10:27:56,057+0100 INFO  main - finishing with exit code 0
2021-06-24 10:29:27,784+0100 INFO  main - starting: MiKTeX Console 4.2.1 (MiKTeX 21.6)

mkfntmap.log reports:

2021-06-24 10:27:51,863+0100 INFO  mkfntmap - C:/Users/.../AppData/Local/MiKTeX/fontconfig/cache: cleaning cache directory
2021-06-24 10:27:51,863+0100 INFO  mkfntmap - C:/Users/.../.cache/fontconfig: not cleaning non-existent cache directory
2021-06-24 10:27:51,865+0100 INFO  mkfntmap - C:/Users/.../.fontconfig: not cleaning non-existent cache directory
2021-06-24 10:27:51,865+0100 INFO  mkfntmap - miktex-fc-cache: succeeded
2021-06-24 10:27:51,874+0100 INFO  mkfntmap - this process (3824) finishes with exit code 0
2021-06-24 10:27:51,875+0100 WARN  miktex.core - still open: C:\Users\...\AppData\Local\Programs\MiKTeX\fontconfig/config\fonts.conf.in
2021-06-24 10:27:51,875+0100 WARN  miktex.core - still open: C:\Users\...\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\fontconfig\config\fonts.conf

mpmcli.log also reports the problem with fonts.conf/fonts.conf.in being open.

The same issue with installing miktex-misc occurs on the Mac (Catalina 10.15.7) but the report on the Mac is a little more helpful:

2021-06-24 10:40:59,679+0100 WARN  miktex-console.packagemanager - package miktex-misc verification failed: some files have been modified
2021-06-24 10:40:59,679+0100 WARN  miktex-console.packagemanager - expected digest: cf4a1581e6df82756f88dfde8ea50d00
2021-06-24 10:40:59,679+0100 WARN  miktex-console.packagemanager - computed digest: fff75277bc7c320726a4c67a8781f916
2021-06-24 10:40:59,679+0100 WARN  miktex-console.packagemanager - miktex-misc: package is broken

On both Windows and the Mac, after attempting to install miktex-misc 2021-06-22 the update screen reports that the package needs to be repaired (which makes sense!).