[OS X TeX] TexShop suddenly can't find pdflatex.fmt (even though it's there)

[Herbert Schulz]

On Sep 8, 2008, at 2:45 PM, Nathaniel Pearson wrote:

> I've been using TexShop with few problems until yesterday, when I  
> opened the
> program for the first time in roughly a week, and tried to typeset  
> the file
> that I've been working on.  I got the following abortive log output:
>
> This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
> \write18 enabled.
> %&-line parsing enabled.
> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt pdflatex.fmt
> /usr/texbin/mktexfmt: line 336: /texconfig/tcfmgr: No such file or  
> directory
> fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found.
> I can't find the format file `pdflatex.fmt'!
>
> My computer does indeed have several copies of the fmtutil.cnf file,
> specifically in directories: /sw/share/man/man5, /sw/share/texmf/ 
> web2c,
> /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/web2c, etc.
>
> Likewise it has copies of 'the' pdflatex.fmt file, specifically in the
> /.texmf-var/wb2c, /sw/var/lib/texmf/web2c, and
> /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-var/web2c/ directories. I've run  
> updatedb (for
> whatever that might be worth), but that didn't help.
>
> Any ideas on steps to take to solve this little problem?


What is your $PATH? What is the result of

which pdflatex

run in Terminal?

What are the Path Setting under TeXShop->Preferences->Typesetting?

Have you changed anything recently?

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest.com)