#2536 miktex -next: Windows API error 5: Zugriff verweigert

[U_Fischer]

I have miktex installed as single user in a account with restricted rights.

Yesterday I changed on a windows 10 to the next repository (to test something with the new luatex). The update manager had a few package unselected. The first update worked fine, but when I run the update manager to get the rest of the packages I get a Windows API error 5: Zugriff verweigert error as miktex seems to try to access the path="C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9" for which my account has no rights.

I get the same error when trying to use the package manager. It doesn't matter if I use the next or another repository.

I haven't tried yet if using admin rights avoids or solves the problem.

[Christian Schenk]

Funny, when I run update wizard all packages are selected. There are no unselected packages. After the update (to NEXT), everything seems to work.

[U_Fischer]

In my case packages like bidi, boondox, footnotehyper and some other weren't selected. But I was away for two weeks and so hadn't run the update manager for some time.

Currently I'm stuck: When I choose the next repository I get the api error directly, and if I choose the normal repository I see the list of packages, I can start the download of e.g. bidi but it ends with the api error too. I will try tomorrow to make a trace to find out why miktex tries to acces c:/program files.

[Christian Schenk]

Thanks, I am now able to reproduce the issue.

[Christian Schenk]

The problem is: the latest update wizard tries to create this file:

C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\config\packages.ini

[U_Fischer]

I suspected something like this ... I can naturally run the update manager once with admin rights to get a new wizard, but at the end I want to be able to use miktex without admin right ;-).

[Christian Schenk]

I have fixed the bug. Your broken MiKTeX setup can be repaired with an intermediate version of the update wizard. Just download and run

x86: https://miktex.org/download/ctan/systems/win32/miktex/support/next/miktex-update.exe
x64: https://miktex.org/download/ctan/systems/win32/miktex/support/next/x64/miktex-update.exe

Please note: The download will be available in a few hours (after the nighlty CTAN sync).

[U_Fischer]

I was able to run the update and everything seems back to normal.

But I now saw that there are two different miktex-update.exe: The one with timestamp 16.10.2016 17.17 in miktex/bin is much smaller than the one in miktex/bin/internal (the one I downloaded). Which one should be used normally? Does it matter? (The original links in the start menu broke during a windows 10 upgrade, so I don't know how the state was when miktex was installed).

[Christian Schenk]

The small one is a hardlink:

$ fsutil hardlink list "C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin\miktex-update.exe"
\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin\internal\copystart.exe
\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin\miktex-update.exe
\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin\miktex-taskbar-icon.exe