General ⇒ compilation fails on some PCs

[neilpate]

Hi there,

I have inherited a project from someone else. All report generation is done by writing a .tex file and then calling pdflatex from the Windows command line.

It works nicely on my PC, but I am getting some strange errors on other PCs. I do not have access to these PCs, so debugging the issue is quite difficult.

I have found out that when the compilation fails the corresponding .log file seems to terminate abruptly, directly after the babel stuff.

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This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.3-1.40.12 (MiKTeX 2.9) (preloaded format=pdflatex 2011.10.27)  9 SEP 2013 18:27
entering extended mode
**C:/Users/neil/AppData/Local/Temp/1.tex
(C:/Users/neil/AppData/Local/Temp/1.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-2009-06-19, greek, gujarati, hindi, hungarian, iceland
ic, indonesian, interlingua, irish, italian, kannada, kurmanji, lao, latin, lat
vian, lithuanian, malayalam, marathi, mongolian, mongolianlmc, monogreek, ngerm
an, ngerman-x-2009-06-19, nynorsk, oriya, panjabi, pinyin, polish, portuguese, 
romanian, russian, sanskrit, serbian, slovak, slovenian, spanish, swedish, swis
sgerman, tamil, telugu, turkish, turkmen, ukenglish, ukrainian, uppersorbian, u
senglishmax, welsh, loaded.

This is all the .log file contains, any ideas what could be causing this? When I run the exact same .tex file on my PC I get a much fuller log file, and the PDF is generated correctly.

Although I have used LaTeX many years ago, I am basically starting from scratch when it comes to my understanding of things, so any help no matter how obvious, would be much appreciated.