[OS X TeX] problems after getting new iMac

[Herbert Schulz]

> On Nov 3, 2014, at 11:34 AM, Art Werschulz <agw at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi all.
> 
> Answers to Herb's questions (which seem to have included Dick's and Ettore's):
> 
>> What OS are you running?
> 
> OS X Yosemite (Version 10.10).  I'm pretty sure that's standard on all newly-purchased Macs.
> 
>> Did you try to install FixMacTeX2014.pkg (found in /Applications/TeX)? That will fix up /usr/texbin. Migration Assistant doesn't seem to like symbolic links so strange stuff happens.
> 
> Having not done so originally, I have now done so, as well as nuking /usr/local/texlive/2014/bin/x86_64-darwin from my PATH.
> It made no difference:
> 
> agw at home:hd-algebra$ which -a pdflatex
> /usr/texbin/pdflatex
> agw at home:hd-algebra$ pdflatex hd-algebra.tex
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.15 (TeX Live 2014) (preloaded format=pdflatex)
> 
> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt pdflatex.fmt
> mktexfmt: No such file or directory
> I can't find the format file `pdflatex.fmt'!
> 
>> Finally, if that doesn't work let us see the results of
>> 
>> ls -alF /usr
>> 
>> and
>> 
>> ls -alF /usr/local
>> 
>> so we can begin to analyze what is going on. (Sometimes symbolic links are converted into copies of what they point to and that messes things up.)
> 
> agw at home:hd-algebra$ ls -AlF /usr
> total 16
> drwxr-xr-x     4 root  wheel    136 Nov  2 04:04 NX/
> drwxr-xr-x     5 root  wheel    170 Sep  9 17:41 X11/
> lrwxr-xr-x     1 root  wheel      3 Oct  9 09:55 X11R6@ -> X11
> drwxr-xr-x  1097 root  wheel  37298 Nov  2 04:24 bin/
> drwxrwxr-x     3 root  wheel    102 Nov  2 04:12 include/
> drwxr-xr-x   254 root  wheel   8636 Nov  2 19:23 lib/
> drwxr-xr-x   171 root  wheel   5814 Nov  2 04:24 libexec/
> drwxrwxr-x    26 root  wheel    884 Nov  2 04:24 local/
> drwxr-xr-x   246 root  wheel   8364 Nov  2 19:26 sbin/
> drwxr-xr-x    44 root  wheel   1496 Nov  2 04:24 share/
> drwxr-xr-x     4 root  wheel    136 Oct  9 09:50 standalone/
> lrwxr-xr-x     1 root  wheel     44 Nov  3 11:56 texbin@ -> ../Library/TeX/Distributions/Programs/texbin
> agw at home:hd-algebra$ ls -AlF /usr/local
> total 32
> -rw-r--r--    1 502   admin   6148 Jan 20  2005 .DS_Store
> -rw-rw-r--    1 root  wheel     97 Dec 30  2010 .gitignore
> drwxrwxr-x    6 root  wheel    204 Nov  2 04:14 Library/
> drwxrwxr-x    4 root  wheel    136 Nov  2 04:08 Qt4.2/
> drwxrwxr-x    4 root  wheel    136 Nov  2 04:08 Qt4.8/
> -rw-rw-r--    1 root  wheel   1613 Dec 30  2010 README.md
> drwxrwxr-x    6 root  wheel    204 Nov  2 04:11 apr/
> drwxrwxr-x  206 root  wheel   7004 Nov  2 04:24 bin/
> drwxrwxr-x    8 root  wheel    272 Nov  2 04:17 cpp2dia/
> drwxrwxr-x    4 root  wheel    136 Nov  2 04:09 doc/
> drwxrwxr-x   11 root  wheel    374 Nov  2 04:13 etc/
> drwxrwxr-x    3 root  wheel    102 Nov  2 04:00 gcj/
> drwxrwxr-x    8 root  wheel    272 Nov  2 04:21 git/
> drwxrwxr-x   10 root  wheel    340 Nov  2 04:24 graphviz-2.14/
> drwxrwxr-x   45 root  wheel   1530 Nov  2 04:24 include/
> drwxrwxr-x   21 root  wheel    714 Nov  2 04:12 info/
> drwxrwxr-x    3 root  wheel    102 Nov  2 04:08 juniper/
> drwxrwxr-x  297 root  wheel  10098 Nov  2 04:24 lib/
> drwxrwxr-x   10 root  wheel    340 Nov  2 04:14 man/
> drwxrwxr-x   16 root  wheel    544 Nov  2 04:11 mysql-5.5.8-osx10.6-x86_64/
> drwxrwxr-x    5 root  wheel    170 Nov  2 04:08 sbin/
> drwxrwxr-x   24 root  wheel    816 Nov  2 04:24 share/
> drwxrwxr-x    4 root  wheel    136 Nov  2 04:08 texlive/
> drwxrwxr-x    3 root  wheel    102 Nov  2 04:24 var/
> agw at home:hd-algebra$ 
> 
>> Once we get things straightened out please remove the addition to the PATH.
> 
> Done.
> 
> BTW, one more data point: I clicked on "TeX Distribution" under "System Preferences" and got the msg "Preferences Error: Could not load TeX Distribution preferences".
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Art Werschulz
> agw at comcast.net

Howdy,

So far everything seems fine! Sigh...

How about

ls -alF /usr/texlive/2014

just to see that the distribution is actually there. Did you try to run TeX Live Utility after thee move? If so there is a small possibility that you may have to re-install MacTeX. Start up TeX Live Utility (TLU) and make sure you update it (TeX Live Utility->Check For Updates…) to TLU 1.19. Then run that to pick up any updates.

Finally, it is know that there is a bug, under Yosemite, in the TeX Distribution Preference Pane in System Preferences that prevents it from running. The author knows about it and is working on a fix. Please go to <http://www.tug.org/mactex/> and click on the link (about 7 lines down) for more information about MacTeX & Yosemite.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)