[OS X TeX] texshop fails to change pdf: problem solved

Tue Nov 26 17:30:05 CET 2013

After sending the panic message below, I tried again and realized that there was an issue with X11 (I have no idea why that is): I had an error message that to open gs I needed to install X11.  After a few tries I managed to do this, and now it seems to work OK.

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On Nov 26, 2013, at 11:11, "Nitecki, Zbigniew H." <Zbigniew.Nitecki at tufts.edu<mailto:Zbigniew.Nitecki at tufts.edu>> wrote:

Yesterday I updated my operating system to OS10.8.5, and now when I try to edit a .tex file and then typeset, I get no error messages from the generation of the .dvi, but then it fails to rename the old .pdf, and I am left with the new .tex file (changed correctly) but the old (unchanged) .pdf file.
Here is the full console output from one such run:
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cp: /tmp/altpdflatex.4561-1385481894/39F13X3Sol.pdf: No such file or directory
### FAILED to copy /tmp/altpdflatex.4561-1385481894/39F13X3Sol.pdf ()
mv: rename 39F13X3Sol.pdf.4561-1385481894 to 39F13X3Sol.pdf: No such file or directory
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