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.fls file not found #177

Closed shiblon closed 8 years ago

shiblon commented 8 years ago

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 164

I always get the same error on make:

sed: can't read presentation.fls: No such file or directory

I've used the latest alpha as well as the 2.20 release. The thing is that there is
TONS of .fls files. They are usually of the form presentation4234.fls where the trailing
number is some kind of PID (of make, latex etc.). So after each 'make' there is another
fls file. I'm using linux with the latest 2012 texlive distro.

Not an urgent issue...

Reported by andre.rauh on 2012-09-20 23:41:07

shiblon commented 8 years ago 
Hmm.  I have seen this before, and I'm trying to remember why it keeps cropping up.

This bug was relevant, but it is old and was only for Windows:

http://www.tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2011-June/029484.html

But that's basically what's going on.  There may have been a regression introduced
in pdflatex that makes this happen.

It's not a bug in the makefile, though it may be that we can work around it if your
new distribution has some command line flags that govern this behavior.

When this happened before on Windows, the workaround was to always specify "jobname"
as one of the latex parameters (otherwise latex appends the $PID to the end of the
filename).

Let me know what you find.

Reported by shiblon on 2012-09-21 07:40:49

shiblon commented 8 years ago 
Thanks for the quick reply and the link. Dont ask me why but the directory I'm working
in, is a virtualbox shared directory to windows which then is an smb network drive
to an nfs share. I know I know... bad. I'll try to switch over sshfs and see if that
fixes it. (If I copy over the entire directory to my local linux (VM) everything works
fine so my guess is, that somewhere from VM->windows->\\smb.xx\ there is some race
condition and the file mv is ignored).

I guess that's not your problem so feel free to close this issue.

Reported by andre.rauh on 2012-09-21 12:47:00

shiblon commented 8 years ago 
Wow, yeah, that is a very unusual setup.  :-)

Feel free to reopen if you find something repeatable, or if you figure out how to soldier
on with the multi-indirection setup you have going.  ;-)

Reported by shiblon on 2012-09-21 13:55:59