[LON-CAPA-admin] LaTeX Errors with Printing

[Stuart Raeburn]

JaBari,

When you run ./UPDATE to install LON-CAPA, it should check for the  
existence of /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/picins/picins.sty, and install  
it, if required, assuming this is a Linux distro where the TeX package  
does not automatically include it. Wwhat Linux distro do you have  
installed on these access servers?

If you still have access to the lon-capa-2.11.1 directory within which  
you ran ./UPDATE to install LON-CAPA on your new access servers, then  
you can use the following commands (as root) to install  
/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/picins/picins.sty and then run  
/usr/bin/texconfig rehash.

cd loncapa-2.11.1/loncom/build

cat ../../doc/loncapafiles/picins_check.piml | \
perl piml_parse.pl "development" "rhes6" "" |perl

(assuming you have Red Hat 6Server installed).

However, you might look in the WARNINGS file created when you ran  
./UPDATE to install LON-CAPA to see if there is a message about  
picins.sty (it should be very close to the end of the file).

It might say something like:

"/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/picins/picins.sty created and  
/usr/bin/texconfig rehash ran successfully."

or

"No action required - /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/picins/picins.sty  
already exists."



Stuart Raeburn
LON-CAPA Academic Consortium


Quoting JaBari A Scott <jascott at vcu.edu>:

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