[Rivet] Wrong latex configuration on some systems

[Frank Siegert]

Hi Andy, Oldrich,

I think going from 70M to 12M should be acceptable, if that gives us
an additional system where it works out of the box. I have committed
this now and pushed it into the release branch.

Cheers,
Frank

On 17 March 2014 10:02, Andy Buckley <andy.buckley at cern.ch> wrote:
> 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
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> Particle Physics Expt Group, University of Glasgow / PH Dept, CERN
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