Eric,

I don't have auctex installed, and org-ref works fine for me.

But I do run a recent self-compiled emacs 24 (haven't tested yet,
if it works with my older emacs24 from debian as well),
and I get updated packages like dash relatively often via cask
( https://github.com/cask/cask , http://cask.github.io/ ),
i. e. I have in my Cask file

  (depends-on "dash")

so it wouldn't have happend to me to have an outdated dash pkg,
isolating your problem and pointing at what exactly is causing your
trouble is of course more difficult (and creating a minimal config that
works for me takes more time than I currently have, sorry).

Hope this helps, nevertheless


-Andreas

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> John,
>
> another data point.  When I try to load an org file, once org-ref is
> loaded, I get the following problem:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
>   re-search-forward(nil 10001 t)
>   tex-main-file()
>   reftex-TeX-master-file()
>   reftex-tie-multifile-symbols()
>   reftex-access-scan-info((16))
>   reftex-parse-all()
>   (and (buffer-file-name) (file-exists-p (buffer-file-name))
> (global-auto-revert-mode t) (reftex-parse-all))
>   org-mode-reftex-setup()
>   run-hooks(change-major-mode-after-body-hook text-mode-hook
> outline-mode-hook org-mode-hook)
>   apply(run-hooks (change-major-mode-after-body-hook text-mode-hook
> outline-mode-hook org-mode-hook))
>   run-mode-hooks(org-mode-hook)
>
> Because of this, org-ref doesn't get initialised properly.
>
> Any idea what may be causing this?  Do I need to configure auctex or
> similar?
>
> thanks,
> eric