[OS X TeX] TeX throws error

[Herbert Schulz]

> On Aug 22, 2021, at 1:11 PM, M. Tamer Özsu via MacOSX-TeX <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu> wrote:
> 
> Thank you Bill; I tried the configuration on TexLive Utility and forced some updates and it seems to be working. And I am not on an Apple-silicon; it is a a new MacBook Pro with Intel chips.
> 
> I am glad I am back to operational and I thank you for the suggestion.
> 
> 
> ==Tamer
> --
> M. Tamer Özsu
> University of Waterloo
> 
>> On Aug 22, 2021, at 1:54 PM, William Slough <wslough at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Is this by any chance on an Apple-silicon laptop? I was helping a colleague recently install MacTeX on his shiny new MacBook Air and I believe I encountered a similar problem. In my case, I got past the problem by setting the paper size in the TeXLive utility. This seems to force the .fmt files to be created. After that, everything was fine. Seems strange, but this was my experience --- perhaps this will help out in your situation also.
>> 
>> Bill Slough
>> 
>> On Sun, Aug 22, 2021 at 12:42 PM "M. Tamer Özsu" via MacOSX-TeX <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu> wrote:
>> Somehow I messed up something with my TeX installation. When I try to compile using TeXShop, I get the error
>> 
>> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.23 (TeX Live 2022/dev) (preloaded format=pdflatex)
>>  restricted \write18 enabled.
>> 
>> First I thought it was TeXShop, but running latex from terminal also throws an error:
>> 
>> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.23 (TeX Live 2022/dev) (preloaded format=latex)
>>  restricted \write18 enabled.
>> ---! /usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/latex.fmt made by different executable version
>> (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
>> 
>> I deleted and reinstalled MacTeX and TeXShop, but still have the error. I guess I am stymied as well. Any assistance would be appreciated.
>> 
>> ==Tamer
>> --
>> M. Tamer Özsu
>> University of Waterloo
>> 

Howdy,

There was a `byte-order' fix which you probably picked up and that rebuilt the the formats.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
herbs at wideopenwest.com