[OS X TeX] Latexmk terminates every other time

[Michael Kubovy]

Dear John,

Thanks for the tip. Opening *.blg revealed many blemishes that the  
console didn't, and after I fixed them, all's well with the world.

MK

On Sep 21, 2009, at 9:42 AM, John Collins wrote:

> I agree with Herb that latexmk gives this report because bibtex  
> reported an error.  One needs to look at the output to see what  
> error bibtex reported.  (Alternatively, the information is in  
> bibtex's log file, i.e., 20090921mk.blg.)  This should give an  
> indication about the cause of the problem.
>
> Typically, when I get such a message, the problem is a non-obvious  
> syntax error in the bib file.
>
> John Collins
>
>
> 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)
>