Beamer Help

[Benny]

I use the following line in my beamerslides
\usepackage{beamerthemeshadow}
It shows the following error on compilation

(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/beamer/themes/theme/compatibility/
beamerthemeshadow
.sty
> \ProvidesPackageRCS=macro:
->\def \pgf@rcsadditional {}\afterassignment \pgfrcs@checkforoptional
\let \nex
t =.
l.1 \show\ProvidesPackageRCS

?
I had compiled the same file some months back and that time it had
cleanly compiled. What has changed now and what do I need to do?
Thanks
Benny

[turtle]

I came across the same problem today.

1. When you compile and get the error message, press enter. It will
skip the error and you will get the desired file.

2. Alternatively, to avoid the error completely,...

Based on what I understood from the google translation of the page
http://wissen-welt.de/posting_464_1152189935_beamer-3-06-und-beamerthemeshadow.htm

{
Google translation:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://wissen-welt.de/posting_464_1152189935_beamer-3-06-und-beamerthemeshadow.htm&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=9&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dbeamerthemeshadow%2BProvidesPackageRCS%2B-%2522groups%2Bgoogle%2522%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG
}

... I opened the beamerthemeshadow.sty and commented out the first
line :
i.e.,
\show\ProvidesPackageRCS
to
%\show\ProvidesPackageRCS

That stops the error from coming when you compile.

PS. I am not sure about the solution but no problems encountered as of
now.