[OS X TeX] Latexmk terminates every other time

[Herbert Schulz]

On Sep 21, 2009, at 5:37 AM, Michael Kubovy wrote:

> On Sep 20, 2009, at 9:21 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote:
>
>> 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)
>
>
> Thanks Herb,
>
> I'm not sure how best to achieve this. The article is long and  
> complex: 9065 words in text, 73 in headers, 641 in float captions,  
> 17 headers, 26 floats, 193 math inlines, 580 paragraphs. Advice?
>
> MK
>

Howdy,

Yeah, that's usually the problem. How to cut the document down and  
still have the failure. Maybe you can comment out the second half  
(e.g., put an \end{document} in a logical place) and try compiling  
again, etc.

In a small document I'm having no problems when changing cite keys to  
different references. Could there be a problem with your .bib file?

What happens when you clean out all the auxiliary files (aux, log,  
synctex.gz, fdb_latexmk, etc.) and then recompile?

I see you wrote to John Collins too. He may be happy with the  
fdb_latexmk and log files from a failed and a successful run.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)