[LON-CAPA-admin] LaTeX Errors with Printing

JaBari A Scott jascott at vcu.edu
Tue Dec 6 08:13:08 EST 2016


Good Morning:

Thank you for that information Mike.  Upon further investigation, the two
access servers that are plagued with this issue have those files, but they
are empty!  I’m not sure if a package needs to be reinstalled.  Is there a
package that yum can install for this?  I’m assuming there may be more
files than just copying the </usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/picins/picins.sty>
file from one server to another.



Thoughts?



Thanks!





JaBari A. Scott

Applications Analyst, Learning Systems

Technology Services

Virginia Commonwealth University

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*From:* lon-capa-admin-bounces at mail.lon-capa.org [mailto:
lon-capa-admin-bounces at mail.lon-capa.org] *On Behalf Of *Budzik, Michael J.
*Sent:* Monday, December 05, 2016 11:33 AM
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*Subject:* Re: [LON-CAPA-admin] LaTeX Errors with Printing



Not sure if this is intermittent or not.  If it consistently fails, we had
a similar issue.  My notes say:

The permissions on a latex file needed corrected so the web server could
read it. To be exact, the following commands were ran:



chmod 755 /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/picins

chmod 644 /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/picins/picins.sty





Mike B



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<lon-capa-admin-bounces at mail.lon-capa.org>] *On Behalf Of *JaBari A Scott
*Sent:* Monday, December 5, 2016 10:28 AM
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*Subject:* [LON-CAPA-admin] LaTeX Errors with Printing



Good Morning All:

Our instance has developed a strange, inconsistent problem in the past
week.  Printing in LON-CAPA is not working 100% of the time on 3 of our
Access servers and is inconsistent on the Library server.  The error
message that is presented is:



LaTeX could not successfully parse your TeX file.

It probably has errors in it.

Here are the error messages in the LaTeX log file:

! LaTeX Error: File `picins.sty' not found.



Type X to quit or  to proceed,

or enter new name. (Default extension: sty)



Enter file name:

! Emergency stop.





l.3 ...kage{wrapfig}\usepackage{picins}\usepackage

                                                  [T1]{fontenc}^^M

End of file on the terminal!



I am completely at a lost as to what to even check for a this juncture as
the LaTeX package appears to be installed on the servers.  Any advice from
the gallery?



Thanks so much!



JaBari A. Scott

Applications Analyst, Learning Systems

Technology Services

Virginia Commonwealth University

jascott at vcu.edu | (804) 828-7310



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