[OS X TeX] [MacTeX 2015] Cannot open Ghostscript for piped input

[Se Fer]

I executed all commands listed in both mails and it indeed seems to be a
permission error!

sebastians-mbp:~ kupfer$ ls -alF /usr/local

total 0

drwxr-xr-x   8 root  wheel   272 10 Dez 15:48 ./

drwxr-xr-x@ 11 root  wheel   374 10 Dez 15:49 ../

drwx------  42 504   wheel  1428 10 Dez 15:49 bin/

drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel   102 13 Jun 13:50 etc/

drwxr-xr-x  10 root  wheel   340 13 Jun 14:01 git/

drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel   102 13 Jun 13:50 lib/

drwxr-xr-x   4 root  wheel   136 10 Dez 15:48 share/

drwxr-xr-x   4 root  wheel   136 10 Dez 15:48 texlive/

sebastians-mbp:~ kupfer$ ls -alF /usr/local/bin/gs

ls: /usr/local/bin/gs: Permission denied

sebastians-mbp:~ kupfer$ ls -alF /usr/local/bin/

ls: : Permission denied

sebastians-mbp:~ kupfer$ cd /usr/

sebastians-mbp:usr kupfer$ ls -l local

total 0

drwx------  42 504   wheel  1428 10 Dez 15:49 bin

drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel   102 13 Jun 13:50 etc

drwxr-xr-x  10 root  wheel   340 13 Jun 14:01 git

drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel   102 13 Jun 13:50 lib

drwxr-xr-x   4 root  wheel   136 10 Dez 15:48 share

drwxr-xr-x   4 root  wheel   136 10 Dez 15:48 texlive

I ran the disk utility and there are way more errors than there should be
(imho). Unfortunately it didn't fixed the wrong permissions for ./bin so I
did it by myself. I guess there is an error in the installation script (I
mean it asks for admin privileges) or it's parallels fault (cause there are
some files inside this folder, too).

I manually changed /usr/local/bin to 755 (drwxr-xr-x  42 504   wheel  1428
10 Dez 15:49 bin) and by accident /usr/bin, too but I guess this won't
hurt? Atleast disk utility wasn't complaining after my heart attack-check
:D ... Why is it owned by user 504 and what is it? I mean it's working, but
weird.

Now I can executed "gs" from anywhere and it's working and texstudio was
able to compile the files! Texpad is now working, too and automatically
detected the ghostscript install!

Thanks for your help guys!

2015-12-10 21:07 GMT+01:00 Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com>:

> > On Dec 10, 2015, at 11:33 AM, Se Fer <don.sefer at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello all
> >
> > hope I can find some help here. I have an (now again) fresh installation
> of MacTeX 2015 running on OS X Yosmite. I haven't installed any other
> version of ghostscript but the MacTeX-package.
> >
> > I removed everything on my drive today to start fresh because I am not
> able to fix the following error:
> >
> > "Error: Cannot open Ghostscript for piped input"
> >
> > Complete error as an example:
> >
> > "epstopdf ($Id: epstopdf.pl 36129 2015-01-24 00:30:11Z karl $) 2.23 !!!
> Error: Cannot open Ghostscript for piped input: gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE
> -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite
> -sOutputFile=pic/webrtc-triangle-eps-converted-to.pdf
> -dPDFSETTINGS#/prepress -dMaxSubsetPct=100 -dSubsetFonts=true
> -dEmbedAllFonts=true -dAutoRotatePages#/None - -c quit"
> >
> > Both texpad and TeXstudio can't find a valid ghostscript installation
> and their fields are blank. I tried adding the following command to the
> Ghostscript-field within TeXstudio  ' "/usr/local/bin/gs "?am.ps" ' but
> it doesn't fix the error.
> >
> > Running "which gs" in terminal gives no output. But running "sudo which
> gs" I get the following output: "/usr/local/bin/gs" ...
> > It looks like everything is in place according to the file structure
> given from the package-file.
> >
> > Yours faithfully
> > Sefer
>
> Howdy,
>
> It sounds like you have some execution bit permission error. Can we see
> what
>
> ls -alF /usr/local
>
> and
>
> ls -alF /usr/local/bin/gs
>
> return?
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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