PDF export fails with pdflatex and LuaTeX

Paul A. Rubin parubin73 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 10 18:50:34 UTC 2020


On 2/10/20 10:54 AM, Martin Weise wrote:
> On 10.02.20 16:14, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
>> On 2/9/20 1:56 PM, Martin Weise wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> I am using LyX 2.3.3 on Ubuntu 18.04 (and i have been doing so
>>> (successfully) for almost two years). However, I recently switched
>>> laptops and therefore needed to reinstall ubuntu.
>>>
>>> On the new machine, LyX fails to export pdf files via pdflatex and
>>> LuaTeX. There is no pdf file after running export. The only thing that
>>> does work is using ps2pdf.
>>>
>>> Here's the message output from Lyx:
>>>
>>> ***
>>> 05:44:25.151: Previewing ...
>>> 05:44:25.154: (buffer-view: Ctrl+R)
>>> 05:44:25.158: pdflatex  "Document.tex"
>>> 05:44:25.232: This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.18 (TeX Live
>>> 2017/Debian) (preloaded format=pdflatex)
>>> 05:44:25.233:  restricted \write18 enabled.
>>> 05:44:25.243: entering extended mode
>>> 05:44:25.244: (./Document.tex
>>> 05:44:25.253: LaTeX2e <2017-04-15>
>>> 05:44:25.254: Babel <3.18> and hyphenation patterns for 84 language(s)
>>> loaded.
>>> 05:44:25.254:
>>> 05:44:25.380: pdflatex  "Bauordnungsamt.tex"
>>> 05:44:25.452: This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.18 (TeX Live
>>> 2017/Debian) (preloaded format=pdflatex)
>>> 05:44:25.453:  restricted \write18 enabled.
>>> 05:44:25.462: entering extended mode
>>> 05:44:25.463: (./Document.tex
>>> 05:44:25.464: LaTeX2e <2017-04-15>
>>> 05:44:25.465: Babel <3.18> and hyphenation patterns for 84 language(s)
>>> loaded.
>>> 05:44:25.466:
>>> 05:44:25.593: Successful export to format: PDF
>>> (pdflatex)support/lassert.cpp (51): ASSERTION status != ExportSuccess
>>> VIOLATED IN ../../src/Buffer.cpp:4382
>>> ***
>>>
>>> Any idea what might be wrong?
>>>
>>> Oh yeah... running pdflatex (manually) on LaTeX code produced by LyX
>>> does work.
>>>
>> Does Document > View work (produce a viewable PDF document) with the
>> pdflatex or LuaTeX formats? If so, when export fails, does it leave a
>> PDF file in the LyX temp directory?
>>
>> I'm wondering whether LyX successfully compiles the PDF file in the
>> temp directory but then fails to copy or move it to the target directory.
>>
>> Paul
>>
> No, Document -> View (pdflatex) produces nothing either. Nor does the
> LuaTeX way. LyX leaves no pdf file in the temp dir. It just leaves .aux,
> .dvi,. log, .tex and .dep-pdf files.
>
> Martin
>
If you open a terminal in the temp directory and run pdflatex against 
the .tex file, does it compile? If not, is there a meaningful error 
message in the terminal?

Paul



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