tectonic fails to compile tex file into a pdf -- "Running xdvipdfmx... Error: Zlib error"

[ajalexei]

Issue: after the updated -- "conda update --all" tectonic fails to compile tex files into pdf with the following error: "Running xdvipdfmx... Error: Zlib error"

Here is the minimal example that reproduces the problem: " \documentclass[english,10pt]{article}

\begin{document}

\title{Some title}

\author{Some Author}

\begin{abstract} Some abstract. \end{abstract}

\maketitle

\section{Introduction to something} \label{sec:intro}

Some text

\end{document} "

Environment (conda list):

``` $ conda list # packages in environment at C:\Users\*\Miniconda3: # # Name Version Build Channel argon2-cffi 20.1.0 py37h4ab8f01_1 conda-forge attrs 20.2.0 pyh9f0ad1d_0 conda-forge backcall 0.2.0 pyh9f0ad1d_0 conda-forge backports 1.0 py_2 conda-forge backports.functools_lru_cache 1.6.1 py_0 conda-forge blas 1.0 mkl conda-forge bleach 3.1.5 pyh9f0ad1d_0 conda-forge brotlipy 0.7.0 py37h4ab8f01_1000 conda-forge ca-certificates 2020.6.20 hecda079_0 conda-forge cairo 1.16.0 hc79e3cf_1005 conda-forge certifi 2020.6.20 py37hc8dfbb8_0 conda-forge cffi 1.14.1 py37h26f1ce3_0 conda-forge chardet 3.0.4 py37hc8dfbb8_1006 conda-forge colorama 0.4.3 py_0 conda-forge conda 4.8.4 py37hc8dfbb8_2 conda-forge conda-package-handling 1.7.0 py37h4ab8f01_4 conda-forge console_shortcut 0.1.1 4 cryptography 3.1 py37h26f1ce3_0 conda-forge cvxopt 1.2.5 py37hae2733a_1 conda-forge cycler 0.10.0 py_2 conda-forge decorator 4.4.2 py_0 conda-forge defusedxml 0.6.0 py_0 conda-forge dsdp 5.8 h6a76313_1203 conda-forge entrypoints 0.3 py37hc8dfbb8_1001 conda-forge fftw 3.3.8 nompi_h24e91a8_1111 conda-forge fontconfig 2.13.1 hdcb13c4_1002 conda-forge freetype 2.10.2 hd328e21_0 conda-forge gettext 0.19.8.1 hb01d8f6_1002 conda-forge git 2.28.0 1 conda-forge glib 2.65.0 he4de6d7_0 conda-forge glpk 4.65 h2fa13f4_1002 conda-forge graphite2 1.3.13 1000 conda-forge gsl 2.6 h86b8168_0 conda-forge h5py 2.10.0 nompi_py37hde23a51_104 conda-forge harfbuzz 2.7.2 hab87c11_0 conda-forge hdf5 1.10.6 nompi_he0bbb20_101 conda-forge icc_rt 2019.0.0 h0cc432a_1 icu 67.1 h33f27b4_0 conda-forge idna 2.10 pyh9f0ad1d_0 conda-forge importlib-metadata 1.7.0 py37hc8dfbb8_0 conda-forge importlib_metadata 1.7.0 0 conda-forge intel-openmp 2019.4 245 ipykernel 5.3.4 py37h5ca1d4c_0 conda-forge ipython 7.18.1 py37hc6149b9_0 conda-forge ipython_genutils 0.2.0 py_1 conda-forge ipywidgets 7.5.1 py_0 conda-forge jedi 0.17.2 py37hc8dfbb8_0 conda-forge jinja2 2.11.2 pyh9f0ad1d_0 conda-forge jpeg 9d he774522_0 conda-forge jsonschema 3.2.0 py37hc8dfbb8_1 conda-forge jupyter 1.0.0 py_2 conda-forge jupyter_client 6.1.7 py_0 conda-forge jupyter_console 6.2.0 py_0 conda-forge jupyter_core 4.6.3 py37hc8dfbb8_1 conda-forge kiwisolver 1.2.0 py37heaa310e_0 conda-forge libblas 3.8.0 14_mkl conda-forge libcblas 3.8.0 14_mkl conda-forge libclang 10.0.1 default_hf44288c_1 conda-forge libffi 3.2.1 ha925a31_1007 conda-forge libiconv 1.16 he774522_0 conda-forge liblapack 3.8.0 14_mkl conda-forge libpng 1.6.37 ha81a0f5_2 conda-forge libsodium 1.0.17 h2fa13f4_0 conda-forge libtiff 4.1.0 h885aae3_6 conda-forge libxml2 2.9.10 h1006b36_2 conda-forge lz4-c 1.9.2 h62dcd97_2 conda-forge m2w64-gcc-libgfortran 5.3.0 6 m2w64-gcc-libs 5.3.0 7 m2w64-gcc-libs-core 5.3.0 7 m2w64-gmp 6.1.0 2 m2w64-libwinpthread-git 5.0.0.4634.697f757 2 markupsafe 1.1.1 py37h8055547_1 conda-forge matplotlib 3.3.1 1 conda-forge matplotlib-base 3.3.1 py37h35e8a6e_1 conda-forge menuinst 1.4.16 py37_0 conda-forge mistune 0.8.4 py37h8055547_1001 conda-forge mkl 2019.4 245 mkl-service 2.3.0 py37hfa6e2cd_0 conda-forge msys2-conda-epoch 20160418 1 nbconvert 5.6.1 py37hc8dfbb8_1 conda-forge nbformat 5.0.7 py_0 conda-forge networkx 2.5 py_0 conda-forge notebook 6.1.3 py37hc8dfbb8_0 conda-forge numpy 1.19.1 py37h7cee19a_2 conda-forge olefile 0.46 py_0 conda-forge openssl 1.1.1g he774522_1 conda-forge packaging 20.4 pyh9f0ad1d_0 conda-forge pandoc 2.10.1 he774522_0 conda-forge pandocfilters 1.4.2 py_1 conda-forge parso 0.7.1 pyh9f0ad1d_0 conda-forge pcre 8.44 h6538335_0 conda-forge pickleshare 0.7.5 py37hc8dfbb8_1001 conda-forge pillow 7.2.0 py37hc826c6e_1 conda-forge pip 20.2.2 py_0 conda-forge pixman 0.38.0 hfa6e2cd_1003 conda-forge pkg-config 0.29.2 h8cfccfd_1006 conda-forge pkgconfig 1.4.0 py37hc8dfbb8_0 conda-forge powershell_shortcut 0.0.1 3 prometheus_client 0.8.0 pyh9f0ad1d_0 conda-forge prompt-toolkit 3.0.7 py_0 conda-forge prompt_toolkit 3.0.7 0 conda-forge pycosat 0.6.3 py37h8055547_1004 conda-forge pycparser 2.20 pyh9f0ad1d_2 conda-forge pygments 2.6.1 py_0 conda-forge pyopenssl 19.1.0 py_1 conda-forge pyparsing 2.4.7 pyh9f0ad1d_0 conda-forge pyqt 5.12.3 py37h6538335_1 conda-forge pyqt5-sip 4.19.18 pypi_0 pypi pyqtwebengine 5.12.1 pypi_0 pypi pyreadline 2.1 py37_1001 conda-forge pyrsistent 0.16.0 py37h8055547_0 conda-forge pysocks 1.7.1 py37hc8dfbb8_1 conda-forge python 3.7.8 h60c2a47_1_cpython conda-forge python-dateutil 2.8.1 py_0 conda-forge python_abi 3.7 1_cp37m conda-forge pywin32 227 py37hfa6e2cd_0 conda-forge pywinpty 0.5.7 py37_0 conda-forge pyzmq 19.0.2 py37h453f00a_0 conda-forge qt 5.12.6 hb2cf2c5_0 conda-forge qtconsole 4.7.7 pyh9f0ad1d_0 conda-forge qtpy 1.9.0 py_0 conda-forge requests 2.24.0 pyh9f0ad1d_0 conda-forge ruamel_yaml 0.15.80 py37h4ab8f01_1002 conda-forge scipy 1.5.2 py37h9439919_0 send2trash 1.5.0 py_0 conda-forge setuptools 49.6.0 py37hc8dfbb8_0 conda-forge six 1.15.0 pyh9f0ad1d_0 conda-forge sqlite 3.33.0 he774522_0 conda-forge tectonic 0.1.12 h4f32bc4_3 conda-forge terminado 0.8.3 py37hc8dfbb8_1 conda-forge testpath 0.4.4 py_0 conda-forge tk 8.6.10 he774522_0 conda-forge tornado 6.0.4 py37hfa6e2cd_0 conda-forge tqdm 4.48.2 pyh9f0ad1d_0 conda-forge traitlets 4.3.3 py37hc8dfbb8_1 conda-forge urllib3 1.25.10 py_0 conda-forge vc 14.1 h869be7e_1 conda-forge vs2015_runtime 14.16.27012 h30e32a0_2 conda-forge wcwidth 0.2.5 pyh9f0ad1d_1 conda-forge webencodings 0.5.1 py_1 conda-forge wheel 0.35.1 pyh9f0ad1d_0 conda-forge widgetsnbextension 3.5.1 py37hc8dfbb8_1 conda-forge win_inet_pton 1.1.0 py37_0 conda-forge wincertstore 0.2 py37_1003 conda-forge winpty 0.4.3 4 conda-forge xz 5.2.5 h62dcd97_1 conda-forge yaml 0.2.5 he774522_0 conda-forge zeromq 4.3.2 ha925a31_3 conda-forge zipp 3.1.0 py_0 conda-forge zlib 1.2.11 h62dcd97_1009 conda-forge zstd 1.4.5 h1f3a1b7_2 conda-forge ```

Details about conda and system ( conda info ):

``` $ conda info active environment : base active env location : C:\Users\*\Miniconda3 shell level : 1 user config file : C:\Users\*\.condarc populated config files : C:\Users\*\.condarc conda version : 4.8.4 conda-build version : not installed python version : 3.7.8.final.0 virtual packages : base environment : C:\Users\*\Local\Miniconda3 (writable) channel URLs : https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/win-64 https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/noarch https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/win-64 https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/noarch https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/win-64 https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/noarch https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/msys2/win-64 https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/msys2/noarch package cache : C:\Users\*\Miniconda3\pkgs C:\Users\*\.conda\pkgs C:\Users\*\AppData\Local\conda\conda\pkgs envs directories : C:\Users\*\Local\Miniconda3\envs C:\Users\*\.conda\envs C:\Users\*\AppData\Local\conda\conda\envs platform : win-64 user-agent : conda/4.8.4 requests/2.24.0 CPython/3.7.8 Windows/10 Windows/10.0.19041 administrator : False netrc file : None offline mode : False ```

[pkgw]

Thanks for reporting! Issue #21 has already reported this, so please follow that for updates. I'm hoping that this will be fixed in pull request #27 by bumping to a fresher release, although I don't understand where this problem is coming from so I'm not sure if that will actually fix anything :_/