[Rivet] Wrong latex configuration on some systems

[Andy Buckley]

Hi Oldrich,

It's a really annoying problem: too small a memory setting and some
plots can't be built; too much and TeX dies with this error. And the max
value is apparently system dependent -- I can guarantee that every Rivet
release has run correctly on my Ubuntu system (including my current 64
bit 13.10) but we do periodically get reports like this.

Perhaps 32 vs. 64 bit systems matter as well as the OS, but we don't
have a list of acceptable values for different systems, or any idea of
how to test for it... other than trying out different values in the
configure script and counting down until TeX doesn't crash. I don't have
time to try writing and integrating something like that right now (and
when I do I'd rather spend it on writing a more modern replacement for
make-plots with fewer TeX requirements!) but maybe someone else would
like to take up that challenge.

Andy


On 17/03/14 09:07, Oldrich Kepka wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> installing 2.1.0 I get the following error
> 
> olda at marlowe:~/work/atlas/moudra/ZZ_ATLAS_2012_I1203852$ rivet-mkhtml
> Rivet.yoda
> Making 13 plots
> Plotting ./plots/ATLAS_2012_I1203852/ZZs_ZpT.dat (12 remaining)
> Plotting ./plots/ATLAS_2012_I1203852/ZZs_mZZ.dat (11 remaining)
> dvips: DVI file can't be opened: ZZs_ZpT: No such file or directory
> 
> which with -v option resolves to
> 
> dvips d06-x01-y01 -f
> Ouch---my internal constants have been clobbered!---case 14
> 
> and is a known issue:
> 
> http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/67014/latex-gives-me-the-error-ouch-my-internal-constants-have-been-clobbered
> 
> 
> Chaning: main_memory = 70000000 to main_memory = 12000000 in
> 
> in share/Rivet/texmf/cnf/texmf.cnf
> 
> solves the problem. It would be nice to have the main_memory set to
> appropriate values depending on tex instalation distribution, though I
> have not looked into that myself.  I am using generic ubuntu 13.10
> texlive-bibtex-extra installation.
> 
> Cheers,
> Oldrich
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Dr Andy Buckley, Royal Society University Research Fellow
Particle Physics Expt Group, University of Glasgow / PH Dept, CERN