[OS X TeX] broken tex distribution

[Martin Costabel]

Felix Grasser wrote:
> I have the exact same issue.
> 
> I have been working with TeXLive2008 and TeXShop 2.26 and everything has 
> been working flawlessly.
> 
> Yesterday, I upgraded to TeXShop 2.28 (part of the MacTeX 2009 test 
> release) and renamed the TeXShop folder in ~Library to TeXShopOld so 
> TeXShop would install all the latest engines, templates, etc. After this 
> generation of the default TeXShop folder in ~Library, I get the error 
> described by Shawn.
> 
> Putting the old TeXShop folder back in ~Library has cured the issue. I 
> have not yet been able to track down what exactly caused the problem.

I would still be interested to see what you have (when the error occurs) 
  in the TeXShop Preferences in the pdftex/pdflatex box under the Engine 
tab.

Or run the command

defaults read TeXShop LatexCommand

-- 
Martin