<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I sent an e-mail to the list about these issues on the 23rd (see below)<div>but it must have gone astray during the short interruption over the last couple of days.</div><div>It seems now that Te XLIve utility works fine. One more question: should there be</div><div>a TeXLIve-2011-64 directory at all? When I choose it I get an error message.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>--aa</div><div><br></div><div>8><---------------------</div><div>I have used the pre-test version of TeXLive 2011 for several weeks, and it worked fine. Two days ago I upgraded to Lion and<div>today I downloaded the official MacTeX, rather than updating via the TeXLive Utility.</div><div>After installing MacTex I fired the TeXLive Utility that told me that critical updates where needed. After this it mentioned that </div><div>three updates were available, I clicked update all, and after a while TeXLive Utility got stuck into </div><div><br></div><div>2011-07-23 09:05:53 +0000 Error tlu_ipctask[13429]<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>running fmtutil-sys --byfmt cont-en ...<br><div><br></div><div>The second problem I have is that choosing the 64 binaries in the system preference pane yields a </div></div><div>disconcerting answer from TeXShop, saying that there is no TeX!</div><div>Looking into the directories, it seems that the 64-bits part date back to May 31st…</div><div><br></div><div>Any clues?</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>--aa</div><div><br></div><div> <img id="d1ff3b9e-c25b-440b-af2d-92bb94ecc507" height="380" width="596" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:C2447F2F-27EB-49CD-8186-B634FA396C83@fastwebnet.it"></div><div><div><div><div>On 26/lug/2011, at 22:33, Herbert Schulz wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>On Jul 26, 2011, at 3:23 PM, Richard Koch wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Jerome and TeX Users,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Unfortunately, there is a significant bug in the Preference Pane, build 151, which is<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">installed by MacTeX-2011 and BasicTeX. This version of MacTeX will be on the DVD,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">so we will be living with this bug for some time.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Because of the bug, users who install TeX Live 2011 will not be able to switch back <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">to an earlier distribution like TeXLive-2010 or TeXLive-2010-64.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The Preference Pane will see the distribution and appear to select it,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">but the user's front end will complain that there are no TeX binaries<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">in that location.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">(If you installed a beta version of TeX Live 2011, you may not see the problem.)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">MacTeX does not touch the TeX Distribution Data Structures from earlier distributions,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">but the Preference Pane does, when it first selects an old distribution. The Pane<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">writes a symbolic link named "texbin" in the data structure's Programs folder.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Unfortunately, build 151 of the Pane writes an incorrect value for this link.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Once you know more details, your inner geek will be able to fix the problem.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Using Terminal, <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>cd /Library/TeX/Distributions/.FactoryDefaults<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>ls<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">You will see a lot of folders, one for each TeX distribution. There will be folders <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">for some distributions you do not have, but that is fine.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">One folder you will certainly have is TeXLive-2011. Type<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>cd TeXLive-2011/Contents/Programs<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>ls<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">to see the files in the Programs folder for this distribution. You will see five<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">entries. Four will be links named i386, ppc, powerpc, and x86_64<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">pointing to the locations of binary directories for various kinds of processor. These<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">are fine. Then you will see texbin, and it will be a link to one of these other links.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On my Lion machine, texbin points to x86_64. I believe that everyone will have<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">a reasonable value for texbin.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Now examine one of the other distributions, say TeXLive-2010. In Terminal type<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>cd /Library/TeX/Distributions/.FactoryDefaults<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>cd TeXLive-2010/Contents/Programs<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>ls -l<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">If you have already selected TeXLive-2010 in the new Preference Pane, you will<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">see four links. Three, named i386, ppc, and powerpc, will be fine, pointing to<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">various binaries in the distribution. But texbin will point to universal-darwin,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">which is not one of the choices. To fix it, type<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>sudo rm texbin<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>sudo ln -s i386 texbin<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">If you have a PowerPC machine, use powerpc rather than i386 in this last command.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Repeat this process for TeXLive-2010-64<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>cd /Library/TeX/Distributions/.FactoryDefaults<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>cd TeXLive-2010064/Contents/Programs<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>ls -l<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">You will see links named i386, powerpc, and ppc, which are fine. But texbin <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">will be a link to x86_64, which doesn't exist. It should instead be a link to i386. So<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>sudo rm texbin<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>sudo ln -s i386 texbin<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">If you have other older distributions, you will have to fix them in the same way. Once<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">fixed, build 151 of the Pref Pane won't break them.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Dick Koch<br></blockquote><br><br>Howdy,<br><br>Thanks for figuring this all out!<br><br>Good Luck,<br><br>Herb Schulz<br>(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)<br><br><br><br>----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting -----------<br>TeX FAQ: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq">http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq</a><br>List Reminders and Etiquette: <a href="http://email.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/">http://email.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/</a><br>List Archive: <a href="http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/">http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/</a><br>TeX on Mac OS X Website: <a href="http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/">http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/</a><br>List Info: <a href="http://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex">http://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex</a><br><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></body></html>