Bug#604754: texlive-latex-base: Possibly indexing problem leads to latex failing

[Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>]

Hi Hilmar,

Thanks for the follow-up. I added two CCs to two members of the R Core team
with whom I had exchanged puzzled notes on this earlier.

On 25 November 2010 at 12:31, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
| On 24.11.10 Dirk Eddelbuettel (edd@debian.org) wrote:
| 
| Hi,
| 
| > My RQuantLib package (for which I am upstream and Debian
| > maintainer) produced a version that lets pdflatex fails _every
| > other run_.  I.e.  see the attached file and in a temp directory
| > try
| > 
| ! pdfTeX error (ext4): \pdfendlink ended up in different nesting level than \pdfstartlink.
| \AtBegShi@Output ...ipout \box \AtBeginShipoutBox
|                                                   \fi \fi
| l.1410 }
| 
| !  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
| 
| Correct?
| 
| This rather looks like a bug in the pdfTeX binary instead of the
| hyperref package. googling for that message suggests, that the bug is
| long-standing and was never really solved. :-(

Could be. We were just guessing to be honest. What we found was that
replacing

	\documentclass[a4paper]{book}

with

	\documentclass[letterpaper]{book}

also suppressed the bug which made us think it had to do with the indexing,
what is which page etc.  It course of course be a garden-variety coding
error. Feel free to change the bug report title accordingly.

Long-standing and not-fixed does not sound great though.  Too bad there
aren't too many deep tex experts around. :-/

So I guess we'll have to keep this one open?

Cheers, Dirk

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