Enumerate bullets not appearing

Question

In the past (on a different computer) I have used the beamer package to make presentations and the enumerate environment has worked fine. However, now when I use the enumerate environment, the nice little numbered circles are not appearing. Does anyone know what the issue is? I recently installed MiKTEX 2.9 and I have updated it.

update: @asia1281

I have tried doing something really simple like:

\documentclass{beamer}
\setbeamertemplate{enumerate items}[ball]
\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Example}
\begin{enumerate}
    \item Item 1
    \item Item 2
\end{enumerate}
\end{frame}
\end{document}

and the numbered balls do not print on the pdf file.

Thanks

update: @asia1281 Here is the entire log:

https://docs.google.com/a/binghamton.edu/document/d/1jNkbrzWMy4bAA_U_Luj6_5ZN5MLW0hyuyXwKBn4aAIc/edit?pli=1

Thanks!

Answer 1

The problem comes from the package IEEEtrantools.sty which internally redefines the enumerate and itemize environments. To avoid the redefinition, don't load this package or, if you need the package for something specific, load it using the retainorgcmds package option:

\usepackage[retainorgcmds]{IEEEtrantools}

to prevent the redefinitions that this package does to the enumerate environment. A minimal example:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage[retainorgcmds]{IEEEtrantools}

\setbeamertemplate{enumerate items}[ball]

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Example}
\begin{enumerate}
    \item Item 1
    \item Item 2
\end{enumerate}
\end{frame}

\end{document}

Answer 2

i don't use miktex, but do you know what exactly it is compiling with? is it latex? or pdflatex? or something completely different? are you sure you're viewing the pdf and not the dvi? when i compile your example with pdflatex, the resulting pdf shows up fine. when i compile with latex to make the dvi, i don't get the shapes:

but when i take that dvi and make it a pdf with dvipdf the shapes appear: