failure of Texshop download

[Harald Hanche-Olsen]

First of all, the mactex support mailing list is probably a better place to ask than this list. See https://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/mactex-support for mor info.

That said, what is that shell script you included? It mentions paths that are unknown to mactex. If that script is somehow involved in your setup, no wonder it does not work. But I don't think you should need such a shell script anyhow; texshop should just work out of the box. However, you may have it set up wrong from your previous installation.

You may consider throwing away Library/Preferences/TeXShop.plist and possibly also the directory Library/Caches/TeXShop and trying again.

Also look at TeXShop Preferences, Engine tab. Is the main search path set to /Library/TeX/texbin as it should?

– Harald


From: J. Chris Fisher (mailto:chris.fisher at uregina.ca)
Reply: J. Chris Fisher (mailto:chris.fisher at uregina.ca)
Date: 3 May 2023 at 22:11:54
To: support at tug.org (mailto:support at tug.org)
Subject: failure of Texshop download

> Help wanted! I had to upgrade my iMac to
>
> macOS Catalina 10.15.7.
>
> My old Texshop no longer works and had to be upgraded. I went to the TEX users group web page
>
> https://tug.org/mactex/
>
> and used the installer to put MacTeX on my computer; I got the message that
> “the installation was successful.”
>
> For a test run, the program opened to the familiar TEX page. When I tried to typeset a file, the console appeared, but nothing happened. In particular, there was no error message and NO auxiliary files were produced. To make sure that I was doing everything correctly, I tried typesetting an old file that I knew had no errors, but again there was no action — no error message. I then tried “Latexit”, and got the error message ”unexpected error, please see 'LaTeX> Display last log’ ”
>
> Source :
> \documentclass[10pt]{article}
> \usepackage[usenames]{color} %used for font color
> \usepackage{amssymb} %maths
> \usepackage{amsmath} %maths
> \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} %useful to type directly diacritic characters
>
> \pagestyle{empty} \begin{document}\begin{align*}Test run
> \end{align*}
> \end{document}
>
> --------------- processing pdflatex ---------------
> #!/bin/sh
> export TMPDIR="/var/folders/fc/wd0gl2x56w37l6yx0wpzm_gr0000gp/T/" 1>/dev/null 2>&1
> export SSH_AUTH_SOCK="/private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.J367oV3Ego/Listeners" 1>/dev/null 2>&1
> export SHELL="/bin/tcsh" 1>/dev/null 2>&1
> export HOME="/Users/fisher" 1>/dev/null 2>&1
> export XPC_SERVICE_NAME="fr.chachatelier.pierre.LaTeXiT.2396" 1>/dev/null 2>&1
> export XPC_FLAGS="0x0" 1>/dev/null 2>&1
> export __CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING="0x1F6:0x0:0x0" 1>/dev/null 2>&1
> export PATH="/sw/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/texbin:/usr/local/sbin:/sw/local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/texbin:/sw/sbin:/sw/local/sbin:/sbin:/Library/TeX/texbin:/sw/usr/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/i386-apple-darwin-current:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/bin:/sw/usr/sbin:/sw/usr/local/bin:/sw/bin" 1>/dev/null 2>&1
> export LOGNAME="fisher" 1>/dev/null 2>&1
> export USER="fisher" 1>/dev/null 2>&1
> cd "/var/folders/fc/wd0gl2x56w37l6yx0wpzm_gr0000gp/T/LaTeXiT-2.16.5"
> /usr/local/teTeX/bin/i386-apple-darwin-current/pdflatex -file-line-error -interaction nonstopmode /var/folders/fc/wd0gl2x56w37l6yx0wpzm_gr0000gp/T/LaTeXiT-2.16.5/latexit-1.tex 1>|/var/folders/fc/wd0gl2x56w37l6yx0wpzm_gr0000gp/T/LaTeXiT-2.16.5/latexit-task-stdout.IVxck5Ak.log 2>|/var/folders/fc/wd0gl2x56w37l6yx0wpzm_gr0000gp/T/LaTeXiT-2.16.5/latexit-task-stderr.TXWQNOcN.log >
>
> --------------- error while processing pdflatex ---------------
>
>
>
> What could be wrong?
>
> Chris
>
>
> J. Chris Fisher Telephone: (216)-938-7148 2616 Edgehill Road
> Cleveland Heights, OH 44106-2806
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