[OS X TeX] problems after getting new iMac

[Ettore Aldrovandi]

> On Nov 3, 2014, at 12:59 PM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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...

Well, it's not TeX-related and most likely not connected with the situation, but all those group-writable directories under /usr/local don't look right.

Oh, by the way Art, have you ever installed Homebrew in /usr/local in the past? What is that .gitignore  file doing there?

--Ettore




Ettore Aldrovandi
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