[tex4ht] erorr code 256, possible perl error code, come up with using --lua option with make4ht, error --- Improper dvi file

[Nasser M. Abbasi]

On 12/1/2015 10:08 AM, Michal Hoftich wrote:

> sorry for a late reply, I finally got gypsum out of my hand, so I am
> able to do some work :)
>

Good news about your hand! hope all is well.

> I've tried you example and I really couldn't find any issue except
> that it is really huge and almost impossible to inspect :( I commented
> out everything except few first paragraphs and it compiled correctly,
> so the issue isn't in used packages, but it must be somewhere in the
> middle of the document.
>
> I can't use even dviasm on the dvi file produced from the whole
> document, so it is really corrupted. BTW, I am unable to compile your
> file even with lualatex.
>
> So, my conclusion is that this is mysterious issue which we can't fix
> unless you find some smaller (really smaller!!!) example :)
>
> Best regards,
> Michal
>

No Problem. If there is an option one can turn on for more debugging
or some other way to get more information why it fails, I'll be
happy to try.

I just tried the same command now again on same zip file
and get the same error.


make4ht -u --lua -c ./nma.cfg -e ./main.mk4 KERNEL.tex "htm,3,pic-align,notoc*" -d KERNEL
--- error --- Improper dvi file
Make4ht: Fatal error. Command tex4ht returned exit code 256

This erorr only happens on 2 such files on my end, and both
are very large builds.  So for these two files, I simply do not use
--lua option.   Here is a screen shot fyi:

http://12000.org/tmp/103115/screen_shot.png

Thanks again for looking into this.

--Nasser