[Darshan-users] Hang on post-process

[Phil Carns]

Hunh.  pdflatex is well-known for stopping and asking for input when it 
has a problem (which isn't great behavior for use in a batch script), 
but we've generally had good luck avoiding that situation with the 
"-halt-on-error" flag.


That flag is present in your ps output.  I'm not sure why it didn't work 
properly in this case.  It should have at least bombed with a latex error.


thanks,

-Phil


On 7/14/21 3:26 PM, Snyder, Shane wrote:
> Heh, I'm glad you were able to figure it out. I was just looking at 
> the files generated in your temporary directory to see if possible to 
> reverse engineer where the failure was occurring, but I'm glad you 
> short circuited the need for that exercise :)
>
> Sorry for the trouble and thanks for working through it with us! I 
> don't believe I've seen the missing LaTeX packages result in a silent 
> hang like that before, either, but it's nice to have another tip for 
> users that might hit something similar while we wait for the new tools 
> to be ready.
>
> --Shane
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Jeffrey Layton <laytonjb at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 14, 2021 2:17 PM
> *To:* Latham, Robert J. <robl at mcs.anl.gov>
> *Cc:* Snyder, Shane <ssnyder at mcs.anl.gov>; 
> darshan-users at lists.mcs.anl.gov <darshan-users at lists.mcs.anl.gov>
> *Subject:* Re: [Darshan-users] Hang on post-process
> Ah - I think I figured it out. I went back to an old email (5/20/2020) 
> when I was first installing Darshan and I found two packages I need to 
> install:
>
> texlive-latex-extra
> libpod-latex-perl
>
> One I installed these, it didn't hang!!  The resulting pdf looks like 
> the one you sent me!
>
> I'm not sure why it didn't yell about missing packages or binaries as 
> it did before (see the 5/20/20 post)
>
> Thanks for hanging in there with me - it's greatly appreciated!
>
> Jeff
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 2:58 PM Latham, Robert J. <robl at mcs.anl.gov 
> <mailto:robl at mcs.anl.gov>> wrote:
>
>     On Wed, 2021-07-14 at 14:32 -0400, Jeffrey Layton wrote:
>     > I'm guessing you and Rob are using CentOS? Ubuntu sometimes makes
>     > things difficult.
>
>     Nope, ubuntu:
>
>     DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
>     DISTRIB_RELEASE=20.04
>     DISTRIB_CODENAME=focal
>     DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS"
>
>     ==rob
>
>
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