[Jabref-users] minimal example [was: crossrefs cause the key generator to go into an infinite loop]

[EBo <eb...@sa...>]

> I am collating several largish BibTeX databases and have an issue with key
> generation on items which use crossref.  Clicking on the item produces a
> believable citation with the cross referenced items filled in, however if I
> then type <ctrl>g to generate a key from the results jabref goes into an
> infinite loop.

After posting the above I realized that I should have sent a minimal test case
(see appended).

I have various permutations of defining booktitle, etc., but if I put anything
in a crossref field it causes jabref to hang.

As a note, I am running jabref-2.6 on Gentoo linux 2.6.33-tuxonice-r1 with Sun
JDK 1.6.0.17.


  EBo --

============== minimal example ===================

@INBOOK{Anderson:unk:,
  title = {The Eightfold Way to the Theory of Complexity: A Prologue},
  author = {Philip W. Anderson},
  pages = {7--16},
  crossref = {Cowan:1994:CMM}
}

@BOOK{Cowan:1994:CMM,
  title = {Complexity: Metaphores, Models, and Reality},
  year = {1994},
  author = {G. Cowan and D. Pines and D. Meltzer},
  volume = {XIX},
  series = {SFI Studies in the Sciences of Complexity, Proc.},
  publisher = {Westview Press},
  isbn = {0-7382-0232-0}
}