General ⇒ pdflatex stops at *

[daviddoria]

I've got a big document that compiled fine this morning. However, after doing some editing today, I tried to run pdflatex on it again but it just keeps stopping before completing, and it doesn't have an error or a line number or anything, just simply *

Here are the last few lines of the output:

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(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/amsfonts/umsb.fd) (./ComputerVision.toc) [1{/usr/sh
are/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}]
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/omscmr.fd) [2] [3] [4] [5])
*                               

Why in the world is it doing this??

Thanks,

Dave

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Dave,

welcome to the board!
Please post the log file as attachment here, perhaps we will find the cause by examining that.

Stefan

[daviddoria]

Here is the entire output:

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[doriad@jec6110h DQE]$ pdflatex ComputerVision.tex                                                                                                                                     This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
 %&-line parsing enabled.
entering extended mode
(./ComputerVision.tex
LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
Babel <v3.8h> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, dumylang, noh
yphenation, arabic, basque, bulgarian, coptic, welsh, czech, slovak, german, ng
erman, danish, esperanto, spanish, catalan, galician, estonian, farsi, finnish,
 french, greek, monogreek, ancientgreek, croatian, hungarian, interlingua, ibyc
us, indonesian, icelandic, italian, latin, mongolian, dutch, norsk, polish, por
tuguese, pinyin, romanian, russian, slovenian, uppersorbian, serbian, swedish,
turkish, ukenglish, ukrainian, loaded.
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size12.clo))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/graphicx.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/graphics.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/trig.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/config/graphics.cfg)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/pdftex-def/pdftex.def)))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/float/float.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/amsmath/amsmath.sty
For additional information on amsmath, use the `?' option.
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/amsmath/amstext.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/amsmath/amsgen.sty))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/amsmath/amsbsy.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/amsmath/amsopn.sty))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/amsfonts/amssymb.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/amsfonts/amsfonts.sty))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/titlesec/titlesec.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/lipsum/lipsum.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/tools/verbatim.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/hyperref/hyperref.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/hyperref/pd1enc.def)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/config/hyperref.cfg)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/oberdiek/kvoptions.sty)
Implicit mode ON; LaTeX internals redefined
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/html/url.sty))
*hyperref using default driver hpdftex*
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/hyperref/hpdftex.def)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/geometry/geometry.sty) (./ComputerVision.aux)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/color.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/config/color.cfg))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/hyperref/nameref.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/oberdiek/refcount.sty)) (./ComputerVision.out)
(./ComputerVision.out) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/amsfonts/umsa.fd)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/amsfonts/umsb.fd) (./ComputerVision.toc) [1{/usr/sh
are/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}]
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/omscmr.fd) [2] [3] [4] [5])
* 

[daviddoria]

I didn't realize there was an actual log file! It was much more helpful than the * at then end of the output!

it was pretty clear what was wrong

*** (job aborted, no legal \end found)

Thanks, now I know where to look!

Dave

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Dave,

so it's solved now?

Stefan

[daviddoria]

yep, all set. i had accidentally deleted the \end{document} line !!

Thanks again.