Bug 994883

Description of problem:
bacula-docs package in Fedora 20. Build was stuck for 15 hours and then killed by Koji:

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=5698742

I was able to reproduce it locally with mock; all the "latex2html" commands get stuck indefinitely. An example command from the Koji build:

make[1]: Entering directory `/builddir/build/BUILD/bacula-docs-5.2.13/manuals/en/developers'
[...]
latex2html -split 4 -local_icons -t "Developer's Guide" -long_titles 4 \
-toc_stars -contents_in_nav -init_file latex2html-init.pl \
-no_antialias -no_antialias_text \
-white -notransparent developers >tex.out 2>&1
make[1]: *** [web] Error 1


If I look into the tex.out log file I can see that the command gets stuck creating an infinite line of dots. Example:


$ tail 2 tex.out | less
==> tex.out <==
;...;..

120/213:subsection:...."Minimal Code in Console Program" for General.html
;..;...

121/213:subsection:...."GUI Interface is Difficult" for General.html
;..,....,....,...;...........
...
122/213:section:...."Bvfs API" for Bvfs_API.html
;...,.................................................. [...]

The moment I stopped my mock build that was running for 3 minutes I already had an 18 mb file; 90% of it filled with dots in the last line.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
latex2html-2012-4.fc20

How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to do a scratch build of bacula-docs in rawhide

Actual results:
Builds gets stuck until Koji kills it. Current stuck build at the moment of writing:

https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=5792896

Expected results:
Build should succeed as the latest build that was done in April.