General ⇒ Error running latex

[perrytom]

Hi,

I've updated a bunch of packages and ever since then none of my files would compile. They all bring the same error message:

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This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (MiKTeX 2.9)
entering extended mode
("C:/Users/perrytom/Dropbox/~Ph.D/Tex Files/TEMPerry.tex"
LaTeX2e <2011/06/27>
Babel <v3.8m> and hyphenation patterns for english, afrikaans, ancientgreek, ar
abic, armenian, assamese, basque, bengali, bokmal, bulgarian, catalan, coptic, 
croatian, czech, danish, dutch, esperanto, estonian, farsi, finnish, french, ga
lician, german, german-x-2012-05-30, greek, gujarati, hindi, hungarian, iceland
ic, indonesian, interlingua, irish, italian, kannada, kurmanji, latin, latvian,
 lithuanian, malayalam, marathi, mongolian, mongolianlmc, monogreek, ngerman, n
german-x-2012-05-30, nynorsk, oriya, panjabi, pinyin, polish, portuguese, roman
ian, russian, sanskrit, serbian, slovak, slovenian, spanish, swedish, swissgerm
an, tamil, telugu, turkish, turkmen, ukenglish, ukrainian, uppersorbian, usengl
ishmax, welsh, loaded.
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\base\article.cls"
Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\base\size12.clo"))
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\ams\math\amsmath.sty"
For additional information on amsmath, use the `?' option.
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\ams\math\amstext.sty"
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\ams\math\amsgen.sty"))
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\ams\math\amsbsy.sty")
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\ams\math\amsopn.sty"))
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\amsfonts\amsfonts.sty")
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\amsfonts\amssymb.sty")
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\ams\classes\amsthm.sty")
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\base\latexsym.sty")
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\fancyhdr\fancyhdr.sty")
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\enumitem\enumitem.sty")
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\tools\array.sty")
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\multirow\multirow.sty")
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\generic\babel\babel.sty"
*************************************
* Local config file bblopts.cfg used
*
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\00miktex\bblopts.cfg")
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\generic\babel\english.ldf"
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\generic\babel\babel.def")))
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\csquotes\csquotes.sty"
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\etoolbox\etoolbox.sty"
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\misc\etex.sty"))
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\graphics\keyval.sty")
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\csquotes\csquotes.def")
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\csquotes\csquotes.cfg"))
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\ltxmisc\parskip.sty")
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\setspace\setspace.sty")
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\epigraph\epigraph.sty")
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\footmisc\footmisc.sty")
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\biblatex\old\biblatex.sty"
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\logreq\logreq.sty"
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\logreq\logreq.def"))
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\base\ifthen.sty")
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\ltxmisc\url.sty")
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\biblatex\old\blx-compat.def")
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\biblatex\old\biblatex.def")
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\biblatex\bbx\authoryear-icomp.bbx
"
! Use of \abx@bbxid doesn't match its definition.
<inserted text> }
                 \endwrite 
l.2 [\abx@bbxid]

?

[cgnieder]

I'm guessing something with the update went wrong. The offending command is used in biblatex style files. For example authoryear-icomp.bbx (taken from your log) contains of these lines:

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\ProvidesFile{authoryear-icomp.bbx}
[\abx@bbxid]

\RequireBibliographyStyle{authoryear}

\endinput

The command is defined in biblatex.sty:

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\def\abx@bbxid{\abx@date\space v\abx@version\space biblatex bibliography style (PK/JW/AB)}

You should ensure you've updated all necessary files.

Regards

[perrytom]

Thank you for your help. I uninstalled all of MikTex since it wasn't updating packages well, deleted all the files it left behind, reinstalled it and updated all the packages. I then found out that they updated biblatex and some of my field weren't correctly formatted. So corrected this. Finally, my files are now updating but biblatex still doesn't work. In particular, the log include this mysterious line:

Package biblatex Warning: Please (re)run Biber on the file:
(biblatex) TEMPerry
(biblatex) and rerun LaTeX afterwards.

does anybody know what that means? How can I run Biber on my file?

[cgnieder]

You can either run biber on your file the same way you did with bibtex or you can add the option backend=bibtex to biblatexand use it with bibtex as before.

Regards

[perrytom]

How do I add that option? I only run bibtex on the files through miktex, and I have no option to run biber there. I'm not sure what you mean by that, I guess I just don't know latex well enough.

[cgnieder]

It's a biblatex option:

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\usepackage[backend=bibtex]{biblatex}

Read the manual of biblatex for details.

Regards