[OS X TeX] Re: prerelease MacTeX 2011

André Valentin ajj47.valentin at orange.fr
Mon Jun 20 13:27:13 EDT 2011


Hi all,

Le 19 juin 2011 à 21:00, Justin C. Walker a écrit :

> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Jun 18, 2011, at 05:32 , André Valentin wrote:
> 
>> I installed MacTeX20110612 without problems. Apparently all is OK and my distribution is TeXLive-2011-64, EXCEPT the Distribution TeX prefPane:
>> 
>> When I click on this prefpane, I get a message "Loading DistributionTeX..." on top of the Sys prefs window,
>> but nothing happens ... and if, after a while, I click again, the syspref.app quits!
> 
> A couple of thoughts:
> 
> 1. Is there anything that might relate in the system logs?  Run "Utilities/Console.app" and select "All Messages".  You may have to rerun your attempt.  When viewing the system log specifically, you can "Insert Marker" (view menu or a tool-bar icon) before rerunning the attempt.  That may help, visually.

Here is the system log:

Jun 20 19:09:16 ovale-2 System Preferences[404]: TeXDistPrefPane - Register help book: file://localhost/Library/PreferencePanes/TeXDistPrefPane.prefPane/
Jun 20 19:09:16 ovale-2 System Preferences[404]: TeXDistPrefPane - Help book registered, if any...
Jun 20 19:09:16 ovale-2 System Preferences[404]: Could not find image named 'Caution'.
Jun 20 19:09:16 ovale-2 System Preferences[404]: [<TeXDistPrefPane 0x2000a9a00> valueForUndefinedKey:]: this class is not key value coding-compliant for the key TeXDistributions.


> 2.  Have you restarted System Prefs?

Yes: to no avail

> 
> 3.  If needed, someone may be able to send you the older pre-release pref panel from the "0529" release of MacTeX.

At last, I installed the old prefPane (MacTeX 2010) from my powerbook, and all is OK!

André Valentin


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