I've been using latex and biblatex (with the apa style) to write my dissertation for a few months now as lyx proved problematic. I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 and vanilla texlive 2012. Until now it has served this purpose well. However, pdflatex now longer produces a pdf and the latex command produces a dvi file with no bibliography. I've raised the various recommended limits in my texmf.cnf file to no effect.
I have each of my chapters separated off into separate files, though only chapters 1 and 2 have much in the way of content so far. Lately I've been working on the 2nd chapter and expanding my bibliography, so I've been looking for errors within this chapter and my bib file; I've not found anything as yet, but that doesn't mean there isn't something glaringly idiotic that I've missed. It surely must be something I have done after all. If it should prove helpful see either of these files I can provide them.
This is extremely frustrating as I thought I had my document sorted and could focus on actually getting work done. I'd like to continue using latex, but if I can't use it to get work done then I'll be forced back to using openoffice. I'm going to continue trying to figure this out in the meantime, however any help or suggestions would be much appreciated as I'm still relatively new to latex. If I can learn something from this, then in the final analysis this won't be time wasted.
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I ran it by cmd : pdflatex test2.tex This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.21 (MiKTeX 21.1) Sorry, but pdflatex did not succeed. The log file hopefully contains the information to get MiKTeX going again: C:\Users\z.gh\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\miktex\log\pdflatex.log
It's like before. PdfLatex.log: 2021-02-15 22:03:26,100+0330 INFO pdflatex - this process (9140) started by 'cmd' with command line: pdflatex test2.tex 2021-02-15 22:03:26,108+0330 INFO pdflatex - allowing known shell commands 2021-02-15 22:03:26,147+0330 INFO pdflatex - going to create file: pdflatex.fmt 2021-02-15 22:03:26,180+0330 INFO pdflatex.core - start process: initexmf --dump-by-name=pdflatex --engine=pdftex 2021-02-15 22:03:27,190+0330 ERROR pdflatex - C:\Users\z.gh\AppData\Local\Programs\MiKTeX\miktex\bin\x64\initexmf.exe did not succeed; exitCode: 1 2021-02-15 22:03:27,190+0330 ERROR pdflatex - output: 2021-02-15 22:03:27,190+0330 ERROR pdflatex - Sorry, but "MiKTeX Configuration Utility" did not succeed. The log file hopefully contains the information to get MiKTeX going again: C:\Users\z.gh\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\miktex\log\initexmf.log 2021-02-15 22:03:27,190+0330 FATAL pdflatex.core - The memory dump file could not be found. 2021-02-15 22:03:27,190+0330 FATAL pdflatex.core - Data: fileName="pdflatex.fmt" 2021-02-15 22:03:27,190+0330 FATAL pdflatex.core - Source: Libraries\MiKTeX\TeXAndFriends\texmfapp.cpp:717 2021-02-15 22:03:27,190+0330 FATAL pdflatex - The memory dump file could not be found. 2021-02-15 22:03:27,190+0330 FATAL pdflatex - Info: fileName="pdflatex.fmt" 2021-02-15 22:03:27,190+0330 FATAL pdflatex - Source: Libraries\MiKTeX\TeXAndFriends\texmfapp.cpp 2021-02-15 22:03:27,190+0330 FATAL pdflatex - Line: 717 2021-02-15 22:03:27,195+0330 INFO pdflatex - this process (9140) finishes with exit code 1
and initexmf.log 2021-02-15 22:03:26,367+0330 INFO initexmf - this is MiKTeX Configuration Utility 4.2 (MiKTeX 21.1) 2021-02-15 22:03:26,367+0330 INFO initexmf - this process (9292) started by 'pdflatex' with command line: initexmf --dump-by-name=pdflatex --engine=pdftex 2021-02-15 22:03:26,367+0330 INFO initexmf - Operating on the private (per-user) MiKTeX setup 2021-02-15 22:03:26,373+0330 INFO initexmf - running: miktex-makefmt.exe --engine=pdftex --dest-name=pdflatex --no-dump pdflatex.ini --engine-option=-tcx=cp227.tcx --miktex-disable-maintenance --miktex-disable-diagnose 2021-02-15 22:03:26,404+0330 INFO initexmf.core - start process: miktex-makefmt.exe --engine=pdftex --dest-name=pdflatex --no-dump pdflatex.ini --engine-option=-tcx=cp227.tcx --miktex-disable-maintenance --miktex-disable-diagnose 2021-02-15 22:03:27,183+0330 ERROR initexmf - sub-process error output has been saved to 'C:\Users\z.gh\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\miktex\log\miktex-makefmt_2021-02-15-220327.out' 2021-02-15 22:03:27,184+0330 FATAL initexmf - The executed process did not succeed. 2021-02-15 22:03:27,184+0330 FATAL initexmf - Info: fileName="C:\Users\z.gh\AppData\Local\Programs\MiKTeX\miktex\bin\x64\miktex-makefmt.exe", exitCode="1" 2021-02-15 22:03:27,184+0330 FATAL initexmf - Source: 2021-02-15 22:03:27,184+0330 FATAL initexmf - Line: 0 2021-02-15 22:03:27,185+0330 INFO initexmf - this process (9292) finishes with exit code 1
should I open issue in miktex?