Re: lilypond does not generate pdf - new install on mac os sonoma

[Abe Raher]

Thank you Ben and Leonardo!

I tried Joshua Armenta's proposed fix. I don't think it actually changed anything. I still got the same ghostscript error after I tried the procedure.

 % cd /usr/local/share/doc

myusername@myhostname % ls -al | grep ghost

lrwxr-xr-x   1 myusername  admin    54 Nov 11 15:37 ghostscript -> ../../Cellar/ghostscript/10.02.1/share/doc/ghostscript

myusername@myhostname % sudo chown -R `whoami` ghostscript

Password:

myusername@myhostname % brew link --overwrite ghostscript

Warning: Already linked: /usr/local/Cellar/ghostscript/10.02.1

To relink, run:

  brew unlink ghostscript && brew link ghostscript

Ben, you can see from the above that I am on the latest version, 10.02.1. What version do you think I should downgrade to? And can that be done with brew?

On Sat, Nov 11, 2023 at 4:43 PM Ben Bradshaw <bleeding.flame@gmail.com> wrote:

Essentially you need to downgrade ghostscript a version. Although with the new release announced today I don't know if it will be fixed or not. 

On Sat, Nov 11, 2023, 5:22 PM Leonardo van der Laat <lvmzxc@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm having the same problem.

There's already a thread about this: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2023-06/msg00135.html

Joshua Armenta posted a solution, something to do with Ghostscript, but I couldn't make it to work.

On Sat, Nov 11, 2023 at 5:39 PM Abe Raher <gankogui@gmail.com> wrote:

hey folks – with my newly installed lilypond on mac os sonoma, lilypond generates midi but no pdfs

i've tested a number of .ly files that successfully generated scores previously – none generate pdfs now

and i just tested the simplest template in lilypond's docs ... please have a look at the log output and give me a clue!  

thanks very much

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what i've got:

Mac OS: 14.1.1 (23B81)

% lilypond --version

GNU LilyPond 2.24.2 (running Guile 3.0)

test file:

melody = \relative c' {
  \clef treble
  \key c \major
  \time 4/4

  a4 b c d
}

\score {
  \new Staff \melody
  \layout { }
  \midi { }
}

test command:

 % lilypond --loglevel=debug template-notes-only.ly 

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command output:

Log level set to 287
GNU LilyPond 2.24.2 (running Guile 3.0)

Relocation
  Absolute file name of LilyPond binary computed from PATH:
    PATH=/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/bin:/usr/local/bin:/System/Cryptexes/App/usr/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/local/bin:/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/bin:/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/appleinternal/bin:/Library/Apple/usr/bin
    argv0=lilypond
  Setting INSTALLER_PREFIX to '/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2'
  Using run-time value for datadir,
    setting it to '/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2'
  Using run-time value for libdir,
    setting it to '/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/lib/lilypond/2.24.2'
  Using run-time value for localedir,
    setting it to '/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/locale'
  Using compile-time value for relocdir,
    setting it to ''
  Prepending '/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/bin' to PATH
  Setting PATH to '/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/bin:/usr/local/bin:/System/Cryptexes/App/usr/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/local/bin:/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/bin:/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/appleinternal/bin:/Library/Apple/usr/bin'
Setting GUILE_AUTO_COMPILE to '0'
Setting GUILE_WARN_DEPRECATED to 'detailed'
Setting XDG_CACHE_HOME to '/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2'
Setting GC_INITIAL_HEAP_SIZE to '40M'
Setting GC_NPROCS to '1'
Setting GC_FREE_SPACE_DIVISOR to '1'


Effective prefix: '/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2'
PATH="/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/bin:/usr/local/bin:/System/Cryptexes/App/usr/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/local/bin:/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/bin:/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/appleinternal/bin:/Library/Apple/usr/bin"

[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/scm/lily/lily.scm]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/scm/lily/lily-library.scm]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/scm/lily/output-lib.scm]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/scm/lily/markup-macros.scm]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/scm/lily/parser-ly-from-scheme.scm]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/scm/lily/file-cache.scm]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/scm/lily/define-event-classes.scm]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/scm/lily/define-music-callbacks.scm]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/scm/lily/define-music-types.scm]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/scm/lily/define-note-names.scm]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/scm/lily/c++.scm]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/scm/lily/chord-entry.scm]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/scm/lily/skyline.scm]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/scm/lily/markup.scm]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/scm/lily/define-markup-commands.scm]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/scm/lily/stencil.scm]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/scm/lily/modal-transforms.scm]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/scm/lily/chord-ignatzek-names.scm]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/scm/lily/music-functions.scm
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/scm/lily/define-music-display-methods.scm]
]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/scm/lily/part-combiner.scm]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/scm/lily/autochange.scm]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/scm/lily/define-music-properties.scm]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/scm/lily/time-signature.scm]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/scm/lily/time-signature-settings.scm]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/scm/lily/auto-beam.scm]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/scm/lily/chord-name.scm]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/scm/lily/define-context-properties.scm]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/scm/lily/translation-functions.scm]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/scm/lily/breath.scm]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/scm/lily/script.scm]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/scm/lily/midi.scm]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/scm/lily/layout-beam.scm]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/scm/lily/parser-clef.scm]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/scm/lily/layout-slur.scm]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/scm/lily/font.scm]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/scm/lily/font-encodings.scm]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/scm/lily/bar-line.scm]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/scm/lily/flag-styles.scm]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/scm/lily/fret-diagrams.scm]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/scm/lily/tablature.scm]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/scm/lily/harp-pedals.scm]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/scm/lily/define-woodwind-diagrams.scm]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/scm/lily/display-woodwind-diagrams.scm]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/scm/lily/predefined-fretboards.scm]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/scm/lily/define-grob-properties.scm]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/scm/lily/define-grobs.scm]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/scm/lily/define-grob-interfaces.scm]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/scm/lily/define-stencil-commands.scm]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/scm/lily/scheme-engravers.scm]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/scm/lily/scheme-performers.scm]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/scm/lily/titling.scm]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/scm/lily/paper.scm]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/scm/lily/backend-library.scm]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/scm/lily/color.scm]
(primitive-load-path lily): 0.10 seconds
Initializing FontConfig...
Adding fontconfig configuration file: /usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/fonts/00-lilypond-fonts.conf
Adding fontconfig configuration file: /usr/local/etc/fonts/fonts.conf
Adding fontconfig configuration file: /usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/fonts/99-lilypond-fonts.conf
Adding font directory: /usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/fonts/otf
Building font database...

[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/ly/declarations-init.ly[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/ly/music-functions-init.ly][/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/ly/toc-init.ly]
Using `nederlands' note names...[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/ly/drumpitch-init.ly][/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/ly/chord-modifiers-init.ly][/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/ly/script-init.ly][/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/ly/chord-repetition-init.ly][/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/ly/scale-definitions-init.ly][/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/ly/dynamic-scripts-init.ly][/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/ly/spanners-init.ly][/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/ly/predefined-fretboards-init.ly][/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/ly/string-tunings-init.ly][/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/ly/property-init.ly][/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/ly/grace-init.ly][/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/ly/midi-init.ly[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/ly/performer-init.ly]][/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/ly/paper-defaults-init.ly[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/ly/titling-init.ly][/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/ly/text-replacements.ly]][/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/ly/context-mods-init.ly][/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/ly/engraver-init.ly]]
Processing `template-notes-only.ly'
Parsing...[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/ly/init.ly
Using `nederlands' note names...[template-notes-only.ly]
template-notes-only.ly:1: warning: no \version statement found, please add

\version "2.24.2"

for future compatibility
Interpreting music...
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/fonts/otf/emmentaler-20.otf
CFF name for font Emmentaler-20 is the same.]
elapsed time: 0.03 seconds
Element count 57 (spanners 6)
Preprocessing graphical objects...
Grob count 109
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/fonts/otf/emmentaler-11.otf
CFF name for font Emmentaler-11 is the same.]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/fonts/otf/emmentaler-13.otf
CFF name for font Emmentaler-13 is the same.]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/fonts/otf/emmentaler-14.otf
CFF name for font Emmentaler-14 is the same.]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/fonts/otf/emmentaler-16.otf
CFF name for font Emmentaler-16 is the same.]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/fonts/otf/emmentaler-18.otf
CFF name for font Emmentaler-18 is the same.]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/fonts/otf/emmentaler-23.otf
CFF name for font Emmentaler-23 is the same.]
Interpreting music...
elapsed time: 0.00 seconds
MIDI output to `template-notes-only.midi'...Track...
[0]
[1]
Finding the ideal number of pages...
[lilypond_serif_3.8662109375]
CFF name for font C059-Roman is the same.
Fitting music on 1 page...
Drawing systems...
Element count 115
Initializing embedded CFF font list.
Embedding CFF font `C059-Roman'.
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/fonts/otf/C059-Roman.otf]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/ps/music-drawing-routines.ps]
[/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/ps/lilyponddefs.ps]
Paper_outputter elapsed time: 0.02 seconds
Converting to `template-notes-only.pdf'...
Preparing Ghostscript command to `/var/folders/fc/k1101v7s4vd830chswfjssdh0000gn/T//lilypond-tmp-5075810': mark /OutputFile (./lilypond-tmp-2864435.pdf) /CompatibilityLevel 1.4 /PageSize [595.28 841.89] (pdfwrite) finddevice putdeviceprops pop (pdfwrite) selectdevice newpath fill (/var/folders/fc/k1101v7s4vd830chswfjssdh0000gn/T//lilypond-tmp-2864435) (r) file .setsafe run
Invoking `gs -dNODISPLAY -dNOSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dAutoRotatePages=/None -dPrinted=false /var/folders/fc/k1101v7s4vd830chswfjssdh0000gn/T//lilypond-tmp-5075810'...

GPL Ghostscript 10.02.1 (2023-11-01)
Copyright (C) 2023 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.
This software is supplied under the GNU AGPLv3 and comes with NO WARRANTY:
see the file COPYING for details.
Error: /undefined in finddevice
Operand stack:   --nostringval--   OutputFile   (./lilypond-tmp-2864435.pdf)   CompatibilityLevel   1.4   PageSize   --nostringval--   (pdfwrite)
Execution stack:   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1944   1   3   %oparray_pop   1943   1   3   %oparray_pop   1928   1   3   %oparray_pop   1801   1   3   %oparray_pop   --nostringval--   %errorexec_pop   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--
Dictionary stack:   --dict:750/1123(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:85/200(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Current file position is 118
GPL Ghostscript 10.02.1: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
warning: `(gs -dNODISPLAY -dNOSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dAutoRotatePages=/None -dPrinted=false /var/folders/fc/k1101v7s4vd830chswfjssdh0000gn/T//lilypond-tmp-5075810)' failed (256)

/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.2/share/lilypond/2.24.2/ly/init.ly:65:2: error: Guile signaled an error for the _expression_ beginning here
#
 (let ((book-handler (if (defined? 'default-toplevel-book-handler)

In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
  1752:10 16 (with-exception-handler _ _ #:unwind? _ # _)
In unknown file:
          15 (apply-smob/0 #<thunk 10c1b22a0>)
In /private/tmp/lilypond-20230930-11551-mwu9xg/lilypond-2.24.2/out/share/lilypond/current/scm/lily/lily.scm:
   873:16 14 (lilypond-main _)
    902:4 13 (lilypond-all ("template-notes-only.ly"))
In srfi/srfi-1.scm:
    634:9 12 (for-each #<procedure 10c5ae420 at /private/tmp/lilypo…> …)
In /private/tmp/lilypond-20230930-11551-mwu9xg/lilypond-2.24.2/out/share/lilypond/current/scm/lily/lily.scm:
    912:9 11 (_ "template-notes-only.ly")
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
  1747:15 10 (with-exception-handler #<procedure 10c5ae3f0 at ice-9…> …)
In unknown file:
           9 (ly:parse-file "template-notes-only.ly")
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
  1752:10  8 (with-exception-handler _ _ #:unwind? _ # _)
In unknown file:
           7 (apply-smob/0 #<thunk 10cd59a00>)
           6 (ly:book-process #<Book> #< Output_def> #< Output_def> #)
In /private/tmp/lilypond-20230930-11551-mwu9xg/lilypond-2.24.2/out/share/lilypond/current/scm/lily/backend-library.scm:
    319:4  5 (postprocess-output #< Output_def> #<directory (lily f…> …)
In srfi/srfi-1.scm:
    634:9  4 (for-each #<procedure 10c85d140 at /private/tmp/lilypo…> …)
In /private/tmp/lilypond-20230930-11551-mwu9xg/lilypond-2.24.2/out/share/lilypond/current/scm/lily/backend-library.scm:
    139:4  3 (postscript->pdf 595.2755905511812 841.8897637795277 "…" …)
     57:4  2 (ly:gs-cli _ "mark /OutputFile (./lilypond-tmp-2864435.…")
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
  1685:16  1 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
In unknown file:
           0 (apply-smob/1 #<exception-handler 10cd599e0> #<&compoun…>)
Throw to key `ly-file-failed' with args `()'.

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