PDF export fails with pdflatex and LuaTeX

Scott Kostyshak skostysh at lyx.org
Mon Feb 10 01:43:20 UTC 2020


On Sun, Feb 09, 2020 at 07:56:56PM +0100, 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.

Hi Martin,

When you run pdflatex manually on LaTeX code produced by LyX,
does it have a non-zero exit code?

Can you send a .lyx minimal example file that reproduces the error?

Best,

Scott
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