Re: dvips Problem

[Mats Bengtsson]

Please always specify what operating system you use and how you
installed LilyPond (if you compiled it yourself or from what
package).

If you run ly2dvi with the extra flag '-V', you will get a more
informative error message that you can send to this list.

   /Mats

Will Oram wrote:
> This is the first time I've run lilypond 1.8, as well as lilypond at all 
> on this new computer of mine. So, naturally, first test runs have problems.
>
> Whatever I attempt to process through ly2dvi, I get this bundle of errors:
>
> warning: no LilyPond output found for 'myfile'
> Running LaTeX...
> Running dvips...
> error: dvips: command exited with value 256
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/sw/bin/ly2dvi", line 1088, in ?
>     run_dvips (outbase, extra_init)
>   File "/sw/bin/ly2dvi", line 819, in run_dvips
>     quiet_system (cmd, 'dvips')
>   File "/sw/bin/ly2dvi", line 504, in quiet_system
>     return system (cmd, ignore_error, quiet = 1)
>   File "/sw/bin/ly2dvi", line 256, in system
>     error (msg)
>   File "/sw/bin/ly2dvi", line 152, in error
>     sys.exit (2)
> SystemExit: 2
>
> I reinstalled TeTeX (which holds dvips, I understand) and the error 
> didn't change. I've tested lilypond on Mutopia ly files, and it's the 
> same error.
>
> What do you think? Thanks.
>
>
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