[OS X TeX] Latexmk terminates every other time

[Herbert Schulz]

On Sep 20, 2009, at 8:05 PM, Michael Kubovy wrote:

> Whenever I change a citation in an article, I get:
>
> Transcript written on 20090921mk.log.
> Latexmk: Found input bbl file '20090921mk.bbl'
> Latexmk: Log file says output to '20090921mk.pdf'
> Latexmk: Found bibliography file(s) [/Users/mk/Documents/Papers/ 
> mk.bib]
> Collected error summary (may duplicate other messages):
>  bibtex 20090921mk: Run of rule 'bibtex 20090921mk' gave a non-zero  
> error code
> Latexmk: Use the -f option to force complete processing.
> Latexmk: All targets (20090921mk.pdf) are up-to-date
>
> The next run is fine:
>
> Transcript written on 20090921mk.log.
> Latexmk: Found input bbl file '20090921mk.bbl'
> Latexmk: Log file says output to '20090921mk.pdf'
> Latexmk: Found bibliography file(s) [/Users/mk/Documents/Papers/ 
> mk.bib]
> Latexmk: All targets (20090921mk.pdf) are up-to-date
>
> I'm running
> Latexmk: This is Latexmk, John Collins, 10 September 2009, version:  
> 4.10d.
>
> on Mac Snow Leopard using texlive 2008.
>
> Suggestions?

Howdy,

Could you supply a minimal file set that shows this behavior? This  
looks like bibtex is having a problem and throwing an error.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)