Re: Problem Updating (Windows API error 87)

Thanks a ton Marius555. Helped me a lot.


Marius555 wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> Just now I got the same error as you did while installing a new package
> with the Package Manager:
> ---
> MiKTeX Problem Report
> Message: Windows API error 87: The parameter is incorrect.
> 
> Data:
> C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.8\miktex\config\1567d83d412396067c84a669e65114a0.fndb
> ---
> 
> While googling for a solution I found your post, without a solution :(, I
> know this answer won't help you but for the sake of future people googling
> for a solution to this problem:
> 
> It turns out the problem was, I had an instance of MikTex open which was
> blocking the files needed for the install. After I closed the MikTex
> instance the install worked fine. 
> Greetings,
> Marius
> 
> 
> Till Fischer wrote:
>> 
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>> Hi there,
>> 
>> this is my first post to this list, and i suspect it to be redundant and
>> already answered, but somehow I can't access the archives. Sourceforge
>> tells me
>> 
>>> Your mailing list, miktex-users, appears to be either not archived yet,
>>> or has had no e-mails sent to it. If it is a new list, please wait 2-4
>>> hours after the first message is sent for the archive to show up. 
>> 
>> Now to the problem:
>> 
>> I try to update miktex, but after downloading it always fails with the
>> following error: "Error: Windows API error 87: The parameter is
>> incorrect."
>> 
>> The line before (from the log) reads: "extracting files from
>> bidi.tar.lzma..."
>> 
>> I hope you have a solution to this problem,
>> kind regards,
>> Till
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