Re: Doc-build failure: pdfetex exit with bad status

[Andrew Hawryluk]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 5:45 AM, Jonathan Kulp<address@hidden> wrote:
> On a fresh installation of Linux Mint (and previously of xubuntu, ubuntu,
> crunchbang, and ubuntulite) I can't get the docs to build properly. It's
> taking several "make doc" commands to get each of the pdf files to be
> written, and then when they appear they're missing all the images.  Here's
> the tail of the terminal output:
>
> /b
> luesky/cm/cmtt12.pfb></usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmtt9.pfb
>></usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/bluesky/latex-fonts/lcircle1.pfb>
> Output written on lilypond.pdf (453 pages, 1615070 bytes).
> Transcript written on lilypond.log.
> /usr/bin/texi2dvi: pdfetex exited with bad status, quitting.
> make[1]: *** [out-www/lilypond.pdf] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jon/lilypond/Documentation/user'
> make: *** [doc-stage-1] Error 2


When I was getting the same error a couple of moths ago I dug further
into the .log file and found a line somewhere telling me which TeX
package I was missing. (I think it was the 'epsf' package in my case.)
Granted, you are already getting some output, so that may not be the
case for you.

Andrew