[texhax] Beamer Error

[Lars Madsen]

Doug Faires wrote:
> I am running  MikTeX2.8 under Windows7 using WinEdt 6.0 as my editor. In 
> the past I had no problem running
> Beamer files but now every time I try to run files that have worked in 
> the past (including the first sample Euler one in the
> Beamer Guide) It gives me
> 
> ("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.8\tex\latex\psnfss\t1phv.fd")
> *geometry* driver: auto-detecting
> *geomery* detected driver: dvips
> ! Undefined control sequence.
> \Gm at lmargin ->\Geom at lmargin
> 
> L.34 \begin{document}
> 
> ?
> 
> 
> The 34 refers, of course to the line on which the \begin{document 
> resides. If I try to push through it
> it gives a lot of other Undefined control sequence statements.
> 
> I cannot find a command \Gm at lmargin  anywhere in the loaded documents 
> nor the other Undefined control sequences
> it gives.
> 
> Any assistance would be appreciated. I reinstalled the Beamer package today
> 
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> 
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> 
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I have no problem runing this

\listfiles
\documentclass{beamer}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
   test
\end{frame}
\end{document}

could you please try it and post the list of file versions it provides

there has been problems like this before, but that was many months ago

/daleif