[Rivet] Wrong latex configuration on some systems

[Oldrich Kepka]

Hi Andy,

understood. What about mentioning this issue at Troubleshooting page
until it is resolved (if ever).


On 17 March 2014 09:28, Andy Buckley <andy.buckley at cern.ch> wrote:
> 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

Yes, that might be, I have 32 bit.

Cheers,
Oldrich


> 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
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