Can you manually compile the empty.tex file from the command line? eg pdflatex empty John ----------------------------------- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 7:57 AM Julius Dittmar wrote: > Am 27.08.19 um 12:34 schrieb Matt Price: > > This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.20 (TeX Live 2019/Arch > > Linux) (preloaded format=pdflatex) > > restricted \write18 enabled. > > entering extended mode > > ! I can't find file `empty.tex'. > > So pdflatex is called and found. Then pdflatex can't find empty.tex. > That looks like pdflatex is called in another directory than where > empty.tex resides. How that could happen, no idea. > > Julius > >