[OS X TeX] TeX throws error

[William Slough]

Hi,

Is this by any chance on an Apple-silicon laptop? I was helping a colleague
recently install MacTeX on his shiny new MacBook Air and I believe I
encountered a similar problem. In my case, I got past the problem by
setting the paper size in the TeXLive utility. This seems to force the .fmt
files to be created. After that, everything was fine. Seems strange, but
this was my experience --- perhaps this will help out in your situation
also.

Bill Slough

On Sun, Aug 22, 2021 at 12:42 PM "M. Tamer Özsu" via MacOSX-TeX <
macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu> wrote:

> Somehow I messed up something with my TeX installation. When I try to
> compile using TeXShop, I get the error
>
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.23 (TeX Live 2022/dev)
> (preloaded format=pdflatex)
>  restricted \write18 enabled.
>
> First I thought it was TeXShop, but running latex from terminal also
> throws an error:
>
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.23 (TeX Live 2022/dev)
> (preloaded format=latex)
>  restricted \write18 enabled.
> ---! /usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/latex.fmt made by
> different executable version
> (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
>
> I deleted and reinstalled MacTeX and TeXShop, but still have the error. I
> guess I am stymied as well. Any assistance would be appreciated.
>
> ==Tamer
> --
> M. Tamer Özsu
> University of Waterloo
>
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