Description of problem: I'm getting the mentioned error when trying to build recent postgresql documentation as a US-paper-size PDF file. Oddly, the A4-paper-size build goes through fine, and that's the identical source files and no difference except for the -V '%paper-type%'=USletter or A4 switch. I've tried to investigate this but soon get lost in a maze of TeX macros; I can't even tell for sure which component is at fault. Am blaming jadetex for starters since it's pdfjadetex issuing the error. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): jadetex-3.13-8.fc12.noarch How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Use an F-13 machine with standard authoring packages installed. 2. Get postgresql 9.0 beta3 source tarball from http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source/ (use beta3, not beta4 or later, because I'm going to put some sort of hack workaround into beta4) 3. Unpack tarball, cd into top level directory, run ./configure 4. cd doc/src/sgml 5. make postgres-US.pdf Actual results: Runs for 10 minutes or so and then fails with error shown in summary Expected results: Should complete the build Additional info: For investigation it may help to "make postgres-US.tex-pdf" first, else make will remove that intermediate file after the failure and you have to start the whole build process over again if you want to try again.
Further experimentation shows that transforming the "AIX-fixlevels" table to a <variablelist> masks the problem, so that's what you'll see if you try beta4 or later. That makes the problem un-urgent from my perspective, although without knowing what's causing it, I'm worried that it might come back in the future.
pdfjadetex is just a symlink to pdfetex ... After googling a bit about this issue it looks like hyperlinks and page boundary is the culprit. As the page size differs for A4 it probably has some luck and just passes the problematic place. Anyway - reassigning to texlive.
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Oh dear, I had forgotten I'd filed this bug, or I would have updated it. We did work out, much later, the proximate cause of this error message: it happens when there's a <link> ... </link> construct and the text to be link-ified crosses a page boundary in the PDF output. The various voodoo fixes mentioned above worked by changing vertical spacing enough so the link text no longer crossed a page boundary. I'm not sure how fixable this is, but if it can't be fixed to remove the error condition, it would sure be nice if the error message were more helpful. It doesn't really tell you what the problem is, and it doesn't identify the source SGML location.
Also ran into this, very annoying due to whitespace issues masking/making indeterminate failure. Should be higher priority.
This is now fixed in rawhide by upgrading to TeX Live 2012.
(In reply to comment #6) > This is now fixed in rawhide by upgrading to TeX Live 2012. That's very good news ... but is there any chance of getting the fix into F18?
I will try to update TeX Live in F18 to 2012 as well. So far the update process in rawhide went very smooth so there are high chances the same would apply for F18 as well.
texlive-2012-3.20121019_r28030.fc18 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 18. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/texlive-2012-3.20121019_r28030.fc18
FYI, I'm hearing that the \pdfendlink failure is still being seen in other distros using TeX Live 2012: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/51CB2096.2080800@pgexperts.com#51CB2096.2080800@pgexperts.com So it wasn't really fixed, or there's another bug with the same symptom, or something. I'm unfortunately unable to try the case with Fedora's package right this instant, so I'm not asking to reopen this bug --- yet. But I'm curious to know what grounds you had for saying TL2012 fixed it?
In order to reproduce the bug with TexLive 2013 on Fedora 19, you can build OpenTREP (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=866265#c11). For instance, search for "Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!" in http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//work/tasks/29/5810029/build.log (task: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=5810028) When you build the package locally, you can go to the BUILD/opentrep-0.5.3/doc/latex directory and type 'make', then look for "pdfTeX error" in the refman.log file. Hope that helps.