Bugs item #909, was opened at 2008-01-26 13:27 You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=493&aid=909&group_id=106 Category: None Group: v1.40.3 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Jorgen Moth (unijm) Assigned to: Nobody (None) Summary: pdflatex does not respond, probably hitting an endless loop condition Initial Comment: A number of students at the Danish Technical University has experienced pdflatex being captured in an internal endless, cpu-consuming loop. Typically the students utilize texmaker (who submits pdflatex jobs with default option -interaction=nonstopmode) to generate their reports. Due to errors in the input latex files not being corrected immediately by the students, this way of working stresses the pdflatex engine, and a number of looping conditions have occured. Enclosed please find an example of a setup which is able to reproduce the looping error. The error will appear by running "pdflatex report" and answer with an empty line (CR) when a figure can't be located and otherwise with "R" when an error appears, thus emulating the -interaction=nonstopmode used by texmaker. You quickly reach the no-response, but very cpu-time consuming condition. It is our hope that you will easily with your knowledge of the internals of pdflatex locate and fix this very annoying problem. Best regards Jorgen Moth jorgen.moth@uni-c.dk (www.uni-c.dk) ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Comment By: Martin Schröder (oneiros) Date: 2008-01-26 17:37

Message: Logged In: YES user_id=421 Please provide a minimal self contained test case proving that this is indeed a problem of pdftex. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=493&aid=909&group_id=106