<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Another strange thing is the presence of a directory git under /usr/local?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">—Ettore</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 10, 2015, at 17:36, Herb Schulz <<a href="mailto:herbs@wideopenwest.com" class="">herbs@wideopenwest.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div class="">Howdy,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please also run</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">sudo chown root:wheel /usr/local/bin</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">since that is the way it should be. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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. <br class=""><br class="">Good Luck,<div class="">Herb Schulz</div></div><div class=""><br class="">On Dec 10, 2015, at 4:24 PM, Se Fer <<a href="mailto:don.sefer@gmail.com" class="">don.sefer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div style="font-size:13px" class="">I executed all commands listed in both mails and it indeed seems to be a permission error!<br class=""></div><div style="font-size:13px" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size:13px" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(245, 245, 245); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">sebastians-mbp:~ kupfer$ ls -alF /usr/local</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(245, 245, 245); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">total 0</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(245, 245, 245); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">drwxr-xr-x 8 root wheel 272 10 Dez 15:48 ./</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(245, 245, 245); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">drwxr-xr-x@ 11 root wheel 374 10 Dez 15:49 ../</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(245, 245, 245); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">drwx------ 42 504 wheel 1428 10 Dez 15:49 bin/</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(245, 245, 245); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 13 Jun 13:50 etc/</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(245, 245, 245); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">drwxr-xr-x 10 root wheel 340 13 Jun 14:01 git/</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(245, 245, 245); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 13 Jun 13:50 lib/</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(245, 245, 245); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 10 Dez 15:48 share/</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(245, 245, 245); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 10 Dez 15:48 texlive/</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(245, 245, 245); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">sebastians-mbp:~ kupfer$ ls -alF /usr/local/bin/gs</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(245, 245, 245); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">ls: /usr/local/bin/gs: Permission denied</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(245, 245, 245); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">sebastians-mbp:~ kupfer$ ls -alF /usr/local/bin/</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(245, 245, 245); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">ls: : Permission denied</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(245, 245, 245); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">sebastians-mbp:~ kupfer$ cd /usr/</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(245, 245, 245); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">sebastians-mbp:usr kupfer$ ls -l local</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(245, 245, 245); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">total 0</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(245, 245, 245); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">drwx------ 42 504 wheel 1428 10 Dez 15:49 bin</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(245, 245, 245); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 13 Jun 13:50 etc</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(245, 245, 245); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">drwxr-xr-x 10 root wheel 340 13 Jun 14:01 git</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(245, 245, 245); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 13 Jun 13:50 lib</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(245, 245, 245); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 10 Dez 15:48 share</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(245, 245, 245); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 10 Dez 15:48 texlive</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra">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).</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra">I manually changed /usr/local/bin to 755 (<span style="color:rgb(245,245,245);font-family:Monaco;font-size:10px;background-color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="">drwxr-xr-x</span><span style="color:rgb(245,245,245);font-family:Monaco;font-size:10px;background-color:rgb(0,0,0)" class=""> </span><span style="color:rgb(245,245,245);font-family:Monaco;font-size:10px;background-color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="">42 504 </span><span style="color:rgb(245,245,245);font-family:Monaco;font-size:10px;background-color:rgb(0,0,0)" class=""> </span><span style="color:rgb(245,245,245);font-family:Monaco;font-size:10px;background-color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="">wheel</span><span style="color:rgb(245,245,245);font-family:Monaco;font-size:10px;background-color:rgb(0,0,0)" class=""> </span><span style="color:rgb(245,245,245);font-family:Monaco;font-size:10px;background-color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="">1428 10 Dez 15:49 bin</span>) 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.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra">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!</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra">Thanks for your help guys!</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">2015-12-10 21:07 GMT+01:00 Herbert Schulz <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:herbs@wideopenwest.com" target="_blank" class="">herbs@wideopenwest.com</a>></span>:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">> On Dec 10, 2015, at 11:33 AM, Se Fer <<a href="mailto:don.sefer@gmail.com" class="">don.sefer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class="">
><br class="">
> Hello all<br class="">
><br class="">
> 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.<br class="">
><br class="">
> I removed everything on my drive today to start fresh because I am not able to fix the following error:<br class="">
><br class="">
> "Error: Cannot open Ghostscript for piped input"<br class="">
><br class="">
> Complete error as an example:<br class="">
><br class="">
> "epstopdf ($Id: <a href="http://epstopdf.pl/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">epstopdf.pl</a> 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"<br class="">
><br class="">
> 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 "?<a href="http://am.ps/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">am.ps</a>" ' but it doesn't fix the error.<br class="">
><br class="">
> Running "which gs" in terminal gives no output. But running "sudo which gs" I get the following output: "/usr/local/bin/gs" ...<br class="">
> It looks like everything is in place according to the file structure given from the package-file.<br class="">
><br class="">
> Yours faithfully<br class="">
> Sefer<br class="">
<br class="">
</div></div>Howdy,<br class="">
<br class="">
It sounds like you have some execution bit permission error. Can we see what<br class="">
<br class="">
ls -alF /usr/local<br class="">
<br class="">
and<br class="">
<br class="">
ls -alF /usr/local/bin/gs<br class="">
<br class="">
return?<br class="">
<br class="">
Good Luck,<br class="">
<br class="">
Herb Schulz<br class="">
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)<br class="">
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