[OS X TeX] Latexmk terminates every other time

[Michael Kubovy]

On Sep 20, 2009, at 9:21 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote:

> On Sep 20, 2009, at 8:05 PM, Michael Kubovy wrote:
>
>> Whenever I change a citation in an article, I get:
>>
>> Transcript written on 20090921mk.log.
>> Latexmk: Found input bbl file '20090921mk.bbl'
>> Latexmk: Log file says output to '20090921mk.pdf'
>> Latexmk: Found bibliography file(s) [/Users/mk/Documents/Papers/ 
>> mk.bib]
>> Collected error summary (may duplicate other messages):
>> bibtex 20090921mk: Run of rule 'bibtex 20090921mk' gave a non-zero  
>> error code
>> Latexmk: Use the -f option to force complete processing.
>> Latexmk: All targets (20090921mk.pdf) are up-to-date
>>
>> The next run is fine:
>>
>> Transcript written on 20090921mk.log.
>> Latexmk: Found input bbl file '20090921mk.bbl'
>> Latexmk: Log file says output to '20090921mk.pdf'
>> Latexmk: Found bibliography file(s) [/Users/mk/Documents/Papers/ 
>> mk.bib]
>> Latexmk: All targets (20090921mk.pdf) are up-to-date
>>
>> I'm running
>> Latexmk: This is Latexmk, John Collins, 10 September 2009, version:  
>> 4.10d.
>>
>> on Mac Snow Leopard using texlive 2008.
>>
>> Suggestions?
>
> Howdy,
>
> Could you supply a minimal file set that shows this behavior? This  
> looks like bibtex is having a problem and throwing an error.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)


Thanks Herb,

I'm not sure how best to achieve this. The article is long and  
complex: 9065 words in text, 73 in headers, 641 in float captions, 17  
headers, 26 floats, 193 math inlines, 580 paragraphs. Advice?

MK