#414 &#$(*&$(* doesn't time out when pdflatex is confused and asking what to do?

[Lee Worden]

I think I have an example case, though I fixed it, I can put the problem back in again.

[Jonathan Dushoff]

Not really following. But if at all possible, we should tell pdflatex to run-always or crash-always. 3-minute timeouts are extremely disruptive to workflow (not least because people almost always decide something else is going on before the timeout comes).

[Lee Worden]

Not really following you :)

Do you mean I should use certain command line arguments to stop pdflatex from ever prompting? I'd love to do that... is there an argument for that?

[Jonathan Dushoff]

I'm so confused. Do you also see a bunch of gobbledygook in the subject head?

interaction=nonstopmode is supposed to stop pdflatex from stopping, if you know what I mean. But that already seems to be the wiki default:

:::make
LATEXFLAGS = -interaction=nonstopmode

Are you getting this #414 &#$(*&$( stopping problem when using nonstopmode? You could try using batchmode instead, but I think that just produces less output. How are you getting it to stop?

[Lee Worden]

On 09/26/2013 03:24 PM, Jonathan Dushoff wrote:

I'm so confused. Do you also see a bunch of gobbledygook in the subject
head?

Yes, it's a comic-book style swear word

interaction=nonstopmode is /supposed/ to stop pdflatex from stopping, if
you know what I mean. But that already seems to be the wiki default:

LATEXFLAGS = -interaction=nonstopmode

Yes, it is

Are you getting this #414 &#$(*&$( stopping problem when using
nonstopmode? You could /try/ using batchmode instead, but I think that
just produces less output. How are you getting it to stop?

Presumably it's while using nonstopmode, yes.

I got it to stop by running top on each cluster node until I figured out
what to kill manually. :(

So this ticket is basically a note to myself to go back and find out how
that happened and how to make sure it never happens again.

[Jonathan Dushoff]

Thanks for explaining. I meant: how did you get pdflatex to stop in the middle of nonstopmode, not how do you get it to stop stopping :-).

[Lee Worden]

On 09/26/2013 04:56 PM, Jonathan Dushoff wrote:

Thanks for explaining. I meant: how did you get pdflatex to stop in the
middle of nonstopmode, not how do you get it to stop stopping :-).

Aha, a very relevant question. I didn't stop to figure that out,
because I was rushing to a deadline, but I think I'll be able to
reconstruct it. Tikz was involved.