[Bug-AUCTeX] preview-1.287; No auxiliary output files

[mathematics]

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\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\begin{document}
hello, world 
\end{document}


Emacs  : GNU Emacs 24.2.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.6.4)
 of 2013-04-09 on allspice, modified by Debian
Package: preview-1.287

Run buffer contents:

Running `Preview-LaTeX' on `user_eval' with ``xelatex -ini 
-interaction=nonstopmode "&xelatex" prv_user_eval.ini   
"\nonstopmode\nofiles\PassOptionsToPackage{active,tightpage,auctex}{preview}\AtBeginDocument{\ifx\ifPreview\undefined\RequirePackage[displaymath,floats,graphics,textmath,sections,footnotes]{preview}[2004/11/05]\fi}"
 "\input" user_eval.tex''
This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-0.9998 (TeX Live 2012) (INITEX)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./prv_user_eval.ini
LaTeX2e <2011/06/27>
Babel <v3.8m> and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang, nohyphenation, ge
rman-x-2012-05-30, ngerman-x-2012-05-30, afrikaans, ancientgreek, ibycus, arabi
c, armenian, basque, bulgarian, catalan, pinyin, coptic, croatian, czech, danis
h, dutch, ukenglish, usenglishmax, esperanto, estonian, ethiopic, farsi, finnis
h, french, friulan, galician, german, ngerman, swissgerman, monogreek, greek, h
ungarian, icelandic, assamese, bengali, gujarati, hindi, kannada, malayalam, ma
rathi, oriya, panjabi, tamil, telugu, indonesian, interlingua, irish, italian, 
kurmanji, latin, latvian, lithuanian, mongolian, mongolianlmc, bokmal, nynorsk,
 piedmontese, polish, portuguese, romanian, romansh, russian, sanskrit, serbian
, serbianc, slovak, slovenian, spanish, swedish, turkish, turkmen, ukrainian, u
ppersorbian, welsh, loaded.
(/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/tex/latex/carlisle/mylatex.ltx)
(/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/.tex File ignored))
No auxiliary output files.

(./user_eval.tex (/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size12.clo)) )
Beginning to dump on file prv_user_eval.fmt
 (format=prv_user_eval 2013.11.18)
71788 strings of total length 102587
48503 memory locations dumped; current usage is 333&46422
3578 multiletter control sequences
\font\nullfont=nullfont
\font\OMX/cmex/m/n/6=cmex10
\font\tenln=line10
\font\tenlnw=linew10
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\font\tencircw=lcirclew10
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\font\OT1/cmr/m/n/10=cmr10
\font\OML/cmm/m/it/5=cmmi5
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\font\OML/cmm/m/it/10=cmmi10
\font\OMS/cmsy/m/n/5=cmsy5
\font\OMS/cmsy/m/n/7=cmsy7
\font\OMS/cmsy/m/n/10=cmsy10
\font\OT1/cmr/m/n/12=cmr12
\font\OT1/cmr/m/n/8=cmr8
\font\OT1/cmr/m/n/6=cmr6
\font\OML/cmm/m/it/12=cmmi12
\font\OML/cmm/m/it/8=cmmi8
\font\OML/cmm/m/it/6=cmmi6
\font\OMS/cm...

[...]

        ...7
  63 for language 16
  19 for language 15
  15 for language 14
  2 for language 13
  21 for language 12
  12 for language 11
  5 for language 10
  2 for language 9
  148 for language 7
  78 for language 6
  137 for language 5
  374 for language 4
  387 for language 3
  2 for language 1
  181 for language 0
No pages of output.
Transcript written on prv_user_eval.log.

Preview-LaTeX finished at Mon Nov 18 14:21:39
Running `Preview-LaTeX' on `_region_' with ``xelatex -interaction=nonstopmode 
"&prv_user_eval" _region_.tex''
This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-0.9998 (TeX Live 2012)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./_region_.tex
LaTeX2e <2011/06/27>
Babel <v3.8m> and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang, nohyphenation, ge
rman-x-2012-05-30, ngerman-x-2012-05-30, afrikaans, ancientgreek, ibycus, arabi
c, armenian, basque, bulgarian, catalan, pinyin, coptic, croatian, czech, danis
h, dutch, ukenglish, usenglishmax, esperanto, estonian, ethiopic, farsi, finnis
h, french, friulan, galician, german, ngerman, swissgerman, monogreek, greek, h
ungarian, icelandic, assamese, bengali, gujarati, hindi, kannada, malayalam, ma
rathi, oriya, panjabi, tamil, telugu, indonesian, interlingua, irish, italian, 
kurmanji, latin, latvian, lithuanian, mongolian, mongolianlmc, bokmal, nynorsk,
 piedmontese, polish, portuguese, romanian, romansh, russian, sanskrit, serbian
, serbianc, slovak, slovenian, spanish, swedish, turkish, turkmen, ukrainian, u
ppersorbian, welsh, loaded.
CUSTOMISED FORMAT. Preloaded files:
        .
 article.cls    2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
  size12.clo    2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX file (size option)
        .
No file _region_.aux.
(/home/mathematics/.emacs.d/elpa/auctex-11.87.2/latex/preview.sty
(/home/mathematics/.emacs.d/elpa/auctex-11.87.2/latex/prtightpage.def)
(/home/mathematics/.emacs.d/elpa/auctex-11.87.2/latex/prauctex.def
No auxiliary output files.


(/home/mathematics/.emacs.d/elpa/auctex-11.87.2/latex/prauctex.cfg))
(/home/mathematics/.emacs.d/elpa/auctex-11.87.2/latex/prfootnotes.def)
Preview: Fontsize 12pt
Preview: PDFoutput 1
)
! Missing = inserted for \ifnum.
<to be read again> 
                   -
l.2 \begin{document}
                    
 !name(user_eval.tex) !offset(-3)  )
(see the transcript file for additional information)
No pages of output.
Transcript written on _region_.log.

Preview-LaTeX exited as expected with code 1 at Mon Nov 18 14:21:39
LaTeX: LaTeX found no preview images

current state:
==============
(setq
 AUCTeX-version "11.87.2012-12-04"
 LaTeX-command-style '(("" "%(PDF)%(latex) %S%(PDFout)"))
 image-types '(svg imagemagick png gif tiff jpeg xpm postscript xbm pbm)
 preview-image-type 'png
 preview-image-creators '((dvipng
                           (open preview-gs-open
                            preview-dvipng-process-setup)
                           (place preview-gs-place)
                           (close preview-dvipng-close))
                          (png (open preview-gs-open)
                           (place preview-gs-place)
                           (close preview-gs-close))
                          (jpeg (open preview-gs-open)
                           (place preview-gs-place)
                           (close preview-gs-close))
                          (pnm (open preview-gs-open)
                           (place preview-gs-place)
                           (close preview-gs-close))
                          (tiff (open preview-gs-open)
                           (place preview-gs-place)
                           (close preview-gs-close))
                          )
 preview-dvipng-image-type 'png
 preview-dvipng-command "dvipng -picky -noghostscript %d -o 
\"%m/prev%%03d.png\""
 preview-pdf2dsc-command "pdf2dsc %s.pdf %m/preview.dsc"
 preview-gs-command "gs"
 preview-gs-options '("-q" "-dDELAYSAFER" "-dNOPAUSE" "-DNOPLATFONTS"
                      "-dPrinted" "-dTextAlphaBits=4"
                      "-dGraphicsAlphaBits=4")
 preview-gs-image-type-alist '((png png "-sDEVICE=png16m")
                               (dvipng png "-sDEVICE=png16m")
                               (jpeg jpeg "-sDEVICE=jpeg")
                               (pnm pbm "-sDEVICE=pnmraw")
                               (tiff tiff "-sDEVICE=tiff12nc"))
 preview-fast-conversion t
 preview-prefer-TeX-bb nil
 preview-dvips-command "dvips -Pwww -i -E %d -o %m/preview.000"
 preview-fast-dvips-command "dvips -Pwww %d -o %m/preview.ps"
 preview-scale-function 'preview-scale-from-face
 preview-LaTeX-command '("%`%l \"\\nonstopmode\\nofiles\\PassOptionsToPackage{"
                         ("," . preview-required-option-list)
                         
"}{preview}\\AtBeginDocument{\\ifx\\ifPreview\\undefined" 
preview-default-preamble "\\fi}\"%' %t")
 preview-required-option-list '("active" "tightpage" "auctex"
                                (preview-preserve-counters "counters"))
 preview-preserve-counters nil
 preview-default-option-list '("displaymath" "floats" "graphics" "textmath"
                               "sections" "footnotes")
 preview-default-preamble '("\\RequirePackage["
                            ("," . preview-default-option-list)
                            "]{preview}[2004/11/05]")
 preview-LaTeX-command-replacements nil
 preview-dump-replacements '(preview-LaTeX-command-replacements
                             ("\\`\\([^ ]+\\)\\(\\( +-\\([^ 
\\\\\"]\\|\\\\\\.\\|\"[^\"]*\"\\)*\\)*\\)\\(.*\\)\\'" "\\1 -ini 
-interaction=nonstopmode \"&\\1\" " preview-format-name ".ini \\5")
                             )
 preview-undump-replacements '(("\\`\\([^ ]+\\) .*? \"\\\\input\" \\(.*\\)\\'" 
"\\1 -interaction=nonstopmode \"&" preview-format-name "\" \\2")
                               )
 preview-auto-cache-preamble 'ask
 preview-TeX-style-dir "/home/mathematics/.emacs.d/elpa/auctex-11.87.2/latex"
 )

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Copyright (C) 2012 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Usage: gs [switches] [file1.ps file2.ps ...]
Most frequently used switches: (you can use # in place of =)
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