<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thank you Bill; I tried the configuration on TexLive Utility and forced some updates and it seems to be working. And I am not on an Apple-silicon; it is a a new MacBook Pro with Intel chips.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I am glad I am back to operational and I thank you for the suggestion.<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class="">==Tamer<br class="">--<br class="">M. Tamer Özsu<br class="">University of Waterloo<br class=""></div>
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 22, 2021, at 1:54 PM, William Slough <<a href="mailto:wslough@gmail.com" class="">wslough@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hi,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Bill Slough</div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Aug 22, 2021 at 12:42 PM "M. Tamer Özsu" via MacOSX-TeX <<a href="mailto:macosx-tex@email.esm.psu.edu" class="">macosx-tex@email.esm.psu.edu</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Somehow I messed up something with my TeX installation. When I try to compile using TeXShop, I get the error<br class="">
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This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.23 (TeX Live 2022/dev) (preloaded format=pdflatex)<br class="">
restricted \write18 enabled.<br class="">
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First I thought it was TeXShop, but running latex from terminal also throws an error:<br class="">
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This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.23 (TeX Live 2022/dev) (preloaded format=latex)<br class="">
restricted \write18 enabled.<br class="">
---! /usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/latex.fmt made by different executable version<br class="">
(Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)<br class="">
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I deleted and reinstalled MacTeX and TeXShop, but still have the error. I guess I am stymied as well. Any assistance would be appreciated.<br class="">
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==Tamer<br class="">
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M. Tamer Özsu<br class="">
University of Waterloo<br class="">
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