[OS X TeX] TexShop crashes when running the bibliography program

[Herbert Schulz]

On Jan 17, 2014, at 4:59 PM, Nathan A. Paxton <napaxton at gmail.com> wrote:

> 	Dear all,
> 
> 	I've been having a recurring problem with TS that I can't always reproduce. It's happened with three different documents, however.
> 
> 	Usually, I default typeset with pdflatexmk, as provided in TS. As typesetting is occurring, when the bibliographic program (seems to occur with both bibtex and biber) goes thru its run, TS crashes and quits. (That is, I am pretty sure it is the biblio program running when the crash happens.)
> 
> 	What can I do to stop this from happening?
> 
> 	I've attached the crash report. What other info could help?
> 
> Best,
> -Nathan 
> 
> ...

Howdy,

I doubt it is bibtex/biber that caused the crash but who knows. If it's something that happens consistently at the same point in the execution of the typeset it would be handy if you could provide minimal but complete document with related files that demonstrates this crash.

Have you tried to run pdflatex, bibtex, pdflatex, pdflatex as separate processes (in the Typeset Menu) to see if it's really the bibtex run that crashes TeXShop.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)