[LON-CAPA-admin] LaTeX Errors with Printing

Fri Dec 9 13:31:57 EST 2016

Good Afternoon Stuart:
That did the trick!  Thank you all!

JaBari A. Scott
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Technology Services
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On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 1:20 PM, Stuart Raeburn <raeburn at msu.edu> wrote:

> JaBari,
>
> If the picins.sty file is already there, but is empty, you could overwrite
> it by using the following command (all one one line):
>
> wget -O /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/picins/picins.sty
> http://install.loncapa.org/ctan/tex-archive/macros/latex209/
> contrib/picins/picins.sty
>
> and then use the command:
>
> /usr/bin/texconfig rehash
>
>
>
> Stuart Raeburn
> LON-CAPA Academic Consortium
>
>
> Quoting JaBari A Scott <jascott at vcu.edu>:
>
> Good Morning:
>> My issues are strange to the recommendations in that the file picins.sty
>> exist, but it's empty.  And that's the same on the other access server.  I
>> followed the steps you provided, but yet, the file remains there, but void
>> of content.
>>
>>
>> JaBari A. Scott
>> Applications Analyst, Learning Systems
>> Technology Services
>> Virginia Commonwealth University
>> jascott at vcu.edu | (804) 828-7310
>>
>>
>>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: lon-capa-admin-bounces at mail.lon-capa.org
>> [mailto:lon-capa-admin-bounces at mail.lon-capa.org] On Behalf Of Stuart
>> Raeburn
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2016 2:29 PM
>> To: lon-capa-admin at mail.lon-capa.org
>> Subject: Re: [LON-CAPA-admin] LaTeX Errors with Printing
>>
>> 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
>>>
>>> jascott at vcu.edu | (804) 828-7310
>>>
>>>
>>>
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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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *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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>>>
>>>
>>>
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