[Rivet] Wrong latex configuration on some systems

[Andy Buckley]

I thought it already was -- thanks for the reminder! Now done.

Cheers,
Andy


On 17/03/14 09:33, Oldrich Kepka wrote:
> 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
>> Particle Physics Expt Group, University of Glasgow / PH Dept, CERN


-- 
Dr Andy Buckley, Royal Society University Research Fellow
Particle Physics Expt Group, University of Glasgow / PH Dept, CERN