<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Oct 28, 2008, at 07:25 , Maarten Sneep wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>Can you create a new user account, and try again? In addition, set the PATH to "/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/texbin"<br><br><blockquote type="cite">I think I have a pretty simple system. My texmf tree is relatively small and my particular LaTeX file is not complex (it doesn't seem to matter which LaTeX file I use, by the way).<br></blockquote><br>To rule that out, I would suggest you try with a fresh user account. We need to activate some debugging flags if that still fails, but others know better how to make sense of those (and their output).</div></blockquote><br></div><div><br></div><div>After creating a dummy account and testing under that user, I still had the same problem. So, I did a little poking around this afternoon and found the problem. There was a fossil texmf directory in my /usr/local/texlive directory that had a bad symlink in it. I decided to back that directory up then hose it. Compile times are now reasonable and I'll check to see whether anything is missing and finish patching the system.</div><div><br></div><div>I can tell you how this occurred. Last year I did a texlive 2007 install before the MacTeX distribution was available. For whatever reason I couldn't get my local texmf tree functioning, so I finally resorted to creating one parallel to the texlive install in /usr/local. That worked just fine until I installed MacTeX 2008 when all **** broke lose.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank all of you so much for helping me resolve my problem. TeX rules; Word drools! I'll go back to lurking now. :)</div><div><br></div><div>-=d</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">David Thompson, Ph.D., P.E., D.WRE, CFM</span></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div><div><div>Civil Engineer/Hydrologist</div></div></div><br></div></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div><br></body></html>