texi2dvi runs forever

[Marius Hofert]

Hi,

I would like to report a case in which texi2dvi runs forever (without
stopping). I know the option max-iterations, but I still believe this
is a bug (and I also believe that it used to work once).

1) Put the following in a file mwe.tex:

\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{bib.bib}
@article{mykey,
author={TeX, L.},
journal={Journal of LaTeX questions},
pages={1--10},
title={{Minimal title}},
volume={1},
number={1},
year={2011}}
\end{filecontents*}

\usepackage[backend=bibtex]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{bib.bib}

\begin{document}
Just some reference: \textcite{myfoo}
\printbibliography
\end{document}

2) Run it with texi2dvi -p mwe.tex
=> the script never stops

I tried this with version 5381 and the very latest from
http://mirror.unl.edu/ctan/macros/texinfo/latest/texi2dvi In both
cases, texi2dvi does not stop.

In the example above, a reference is not found in the .bib file. I am
quite sure that texi2dvi used to do the following in this case: It
would still generate the .pdf and stop, and the references not found
would be printed in bold with their corresponding keys ('myfoo') in
the text.
I'm not sure why this behavior changed. I recently upgraded to Ubuntu
14.04 and this is the only explanation I have (although it might not
be related to it).

I hope you can fix this, it's quite tedious to kill the process and
figure out which reference has not been found...

If you have a bugfix, I am happy to try it out.

With best wishes,

Marius

PS: The problem is also (partially) described here
(http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/173077/texi2dvi-runs-forever-if-the-document-contains-references-not-in-the-bib-file)



-- 
Dr. Marius Hofert
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Applied Mathematics
University of Washington
Lewis Hall 203
URL http://www.math.ethz.ch/~hofertj/