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

[Ettore Aldrovandi]

It’s possible that user 504 is you or some alternative version of yourself in previous installation. 504 is a uid; yours can be found by running the command ‘id’ in the terminal.

Another strange thing is the presence of a directory git under /usr/local?

—Ettore

> On Dec 10, 2015, at 17:36, Herb Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> Please also run
> 
> sudo chown root:wheel /usr/local/bin
> 
> since that is the way it should be. 
> 
> Did you remove the account of the initial owner of the system? With lots of errors from Disk Utility you should backup everything and reformat and reinstall the OS, etc. You're treading on dangerous ground. 
> 
> Good Luck,
> Herb Schulz
> 
> On Dec 10, 2015, at 4:24 PM, Se Fer <don.sefer at gmail.com <mailto:don.sefer at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>> 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 <mailto:herbs at wideopenwest.com>>:
>> > On Dec 10, 2015, at 11:33 AM, Se Fer <don.sefer at gmail.com <mailto: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 <http://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 <http://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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