PDF export fails with pdflatex and LuaTeX

Martin Weise M at rtinWeise.de
Mon Feb 10 20:07:41 UTC 2020


On 10.02.20 19:50, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
> 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
>
Yes, it does. There is no error.

Martin




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