Document Classes ⇒ Beamer: undefined sequence errors and blank first page

[geo]

hello,
with the following minimal example, i cannot produce a PDF without at least two undefined control sequence errors and a "Missing \begin{document}" error. also, the first output page is blank and very large in comparison to the title slide.

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\documentclass{beamer}
\title{Test}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\end{document}

this is pdfTeX, 3.1415926-1.40.10 (TeX Live 2009) on OSX (10.6.4).

please find my .log attached.
and thank you for any suggestions.

[josephwright]

Did you read the rest of the log? For example you have

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LaTeX Warning: You have requested, on input line 3547, version
               `2009/07/21' of package kvoptions,
               but only version
               `2007/10/18 v3.0 Keyval support for LaTeX options (HO)'
               is available.

just before

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! Undefined control sequence.
l.3549 \DeclareLocalOptions
                           {%

This seems like a pretty obvious issue: you've got a version of beamer much newer than the rest of you TeX installation. Did you just download beamer on its own?

[geo]

hi Joseph,

thank you for your quick reply. delving into log files is new for me. i did indeed reinstall the beamer package through the TeXLive Utility.

would you get me started on how i would return to a previous version of beamer or newer version of TeX?

thank you again.

[geo]

Did you read the rest of the log? For example you have

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LaTeX Warning: You have requested, on input line 3547, version
               `2009/07/21' of package kvoptions,
               but only version
               `2007/10/18 v3.0 Keyval support for LaTeX options (HO)'
               is available.

just before

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! Undefined control sequence.
l.3549 \DeclareLocalOptions
                           {%

This seems like a pretty obvious issue: you've got a version of beamer much newer than the rest of you TeX installation. Did you just download beamer on its own?

i had multiple versions of oberdiek's kvoptions installed. removing the non texmf-local one resolved my issue.