BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ List of References not printed

[lnsam22]

Hi fellow LateX users,

I recently got a new computer and reinstalled BibteX/TexnicCenter which I used for my thesis. Unfortunately, my bibliography for said thesis is now giving me errors and refusing to either cite or print the references list. Instead it gives the following error:

the bibhang has already been defined.

and that: \newlength{\bibhang}

Considering the fact that I made no changes to the .tex file whatsoever, I'm confused as to what the problem is. I checked the MiKTeX Package Manager to make sure that I have all the necessary packages so I know that that is not the problem.

Included in this post is the preamble and in-document BibteX commands. Though I'm guessing it won't run without the .bib file (I wasn't sure how to upload the file)...

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\documentclass[12pt]{book}% sets font size
\usepackage{amsmath}%
\usepackage{amsfonts}%
\usepackage{amssymb}%
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{chicago}% to do with biblio
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{listings}% helps write source code from matlab
\usepackage[authordate]{biblatex-chicago}
\bibliography{jobname}% its the .bib file
\usepackage{setspace}% allows for use of double spacing
\usepackage[centering,text={5.5in,9in}]{geometry}

%###########################
%\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
%\usepackage[ansinew]{inputenc}
%###########################


%%----------------------------------------------------------
\doublespacing

\begin{document}
\nocite{*}
\printbibliography[title=References,maxnames=10,minnames=7]
\end{document}

[localghost]

I don't think that this has worked once (and ever will). biblatex-chicago is a style for biblatex and actually not a package. And biblatex is missing completely.

Furthermore some important information is missing. There is no bibliography database file (*.bib) to make this example self-contained. And the example is far from being minimal.


Thorsten