General ⇒ TeXnic Centre Crashes

[Eenzc]

I would post this in the TeXnic Centre Forum but it doesn't have a new topic button... at least not for me.

Anyhoo,

My TeXnic Center keeps crashing very periodically making it almost impossible to use. I have not idea why it is crashing, its happens every few minutes even while I'm being inactive so its not related to any specific process that I'm aware of.

Here is a screen shot of the typical crash.



I've tried reinstalling the Miktex 2.7 package again, but it didn't solve the problem.

I'm using windows XP.

I'm using the following packages:

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\documentclass[a4paper,oneside,11pt,titlepage]{book}

\usepackage{verbatim} % for the inclusion of multi-line comments
\usepackage{sistyle}

%%%% Math Packages 
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsthm}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amssymb}

%%%% Chemistry Specific
\usepackage{sistyle} % includes SI style sheets
\usepackage[version=3]{mhchem}


%%%% Graphics packages
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{subfigure}

%%%% Citations and Reference packages
\usepackage[colorlinks=true,linkcolor=blue,citecolor=green]{hyperref}
\usepackage{hypernat}
\usepackage{cite}
\usepackage{chapterbib}

%%%% Others
\usepackage[left=4cm,right=2.5cm,bottom=2.5cm,top=2.5cm]{geometry}
\usepackage[margin=10pt,font=small,labelfont=bf, justification=centering]{caption}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{verbatim}		% Needed for the "comment" environment to make LaTeX comments
\usepackage{array}

I compile to .pdf

Any help would be greatly appreciated as I'm trying to write my thesis but the constant crashing is making me think I should go back to word.

[localghost]

I would post this in the TeXnic Centre Forum but it doesn't have a new topic button... at least not for me. […]

Very mysterious and hard to believe, because you are the first one who reports such a problem.

[…] Any help would be greatly appreciated as I'm trying to write my thesis but the constant crashing is making me think I should go back to word.

Seems to be a systematic failure. Take the current version of TeXnicCenter and try to re-install. If that doesn't solve your problems, you may try one of the other LaTeX editors introduced on the index page of the forum before returning to a word processor.


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[Eenzc]

Post editied to remove clutter for clarity...

[localghost]

Some times things that are hard to believe are true. […]

It goes without saying that you have to enter one of the subforums.

[Eenzc]

Ooops... now don't I look stupid.

Anyhoo enough about that, guess I'll reinstall everything again and hope for the best. If that fails what are your opinions on the best easy to use "client" other than TeXnic centre?

[Izmi]

I also have occasional crashes with TeXnicCenter 1.0 RC1. Usually, they happen when i) I have multiple instances of TeXnicCenter and ii) the notebook resumes from standby. I've sent reports using the Windows Error Reporting (WER) tool. Traces can be obtained from Microsoft, I guess.

Best,
Izmi

[Eenzc]

This keeps happening and its making me

Even if TeXnic center is just opened along with my thesis file and I even if I don't use it for anything after about 5 minutes it crashes.. I think it must be a memory leak or something.

I've reinstalled it three times and to new locations.



Is it possible that my actual .tex files are corrupt if so how should I recitify them? Bearing in mind that they are my thesis and I don't want to have to re-type them.

[Eenzc]

I had a friend look at the problem and he eventually solved it:

TeXnic Centre would crash during parsing the file structure into the navigator. This would happen during manual saving of all file or during the automatic save process every 10 minutes.

The parsing of a bibliography file with a particuarlly large abstract inside it would cause the program to crash.

My removing the reference .bib file and replacing it with another file without the large abstract the program no longer crashes.

This was so hard to diagnose because it would only happen periodically and did not occur during compilation or and other normal usage processes and would also occur then the program was left idle for a time.

Developers may wish to take note of this issue.

[robfroud]

I have been experiencing exactly the same problem while writing my thesis. I have learned to save VERY regularly, but it is frustrating. The cause you suggest could also be responsible for my difficulties - I have a large bib containing many abstracts (I always export like that. Actually, I export into Endnote, then into Jabref). If any developers can think of another solution, I'd be grateful - I'm loathe to remove all my abstracts.

Best,

Rob

[robfroud]

It is becoming more frequent, crashing around 7 times a day...... Please do post if you have any other ideas - this problem is becoming unbearable!