Oh no, I'm getting this error now. I get it for both pdflatex and xelatex engines:

pandoc: xelatex: createProcess: runInteractiveProcess: exec: inappropriate type (Not a directory)

pandoc: pdflatex: createProcess: runInteractiveProcess: exec: inappropriate type (Not a directory)

I was running Pandoc with absolutely no problems on OS X Yosemite. What started producing this error is that I was trying to add a path to the $PATH variable by editing .bash_profile to this:

export PATH="/bin/bash:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/bin:$PATH"

 This was a bad idea, as it ended up removing lots of additions from $PATH which I had to put back in again by hand (eg the Python3.4 path had to be re-added). So, this is $PATH after my attempt to fix it:

/bin/bash:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/texbin

 

The texbin is in the path, so pdflatex and xelatex are both discoverable:

which xelatex

/usr/texbin/xelatex

 But I've completely broken Pandoc. 

Presumably, there's something still missing from my $PATH variable, and if I could restore my $PATH to what it was previously, it would work again. Can anyone see anything obvious that's missing? Could someone running Pandoc on Yosemite type echo $PATH and let me know what they get?

thanks.

On Thursday, November 6, 2014 at 1:26:37 AM UTC, Ricardo Pietrobon wrote:

everything was working perfectly unitl I installed yosemite (i know, I know) and now when I try to convert from markdown to pdf i get the following message:

pandoc: pdflatex: createProcess: runInteractiveProcess: exec: inappropriate type (Not a directory)

here is what i tried and didn't work:

1. reinstalled pandoc, with the binary from the pandoc site as well as through brew

2. reinstalled maktex, which includes using FixMacTeX2014.pkg

3. deleted the old /usr/bin/texbin and rebuilt the symbolic link

any thoughts on what the problem might be?

thanks