https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=833815 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=833815#c0 Summary: texlive biber doesn't create bbl file Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 12.3 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 12.3 Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: Other AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: arun@gmx.de QAContact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- Created an attachment (id=551639) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=551639) test file User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:22.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/22.0 Using biber doesn't create a bbl file. The content that should be in the bbl file is printed on stdout and biber claims to create a bbl though. I attached a minimal case that shows the problem on my system. I'm runniing 12.3+Tumbleweed and have the following version of biber installed: arun@ape:~/tmp/tmp8>rpm -qi texlive-biber Name : texlive-biber Version : 2012.67.0.0.9.9svn25858 Release : 4.5.2 Architecture: noarch Install Date: Mon 05 Aug 2013 11:51:46 AM PDT Group : Productivity/Publishing/TeX/Base Size : 264335 License : Artistic-2.0 and GPL-1.0+ Signature : RSA/SHA256, Mon 05 Aug 2013 02:42:34 AM PDT, Key ID b88b2fd43dbdc284 Source RPM : texlive-biber-2012.67.0.0.9.9svn25858-4.5.2.src.rpm Build Date : Mon 22 Jul 2013 06:49:06 AM PDT Build Host : build35 Relocations : (not relocatable) Packager : http://bugs.opensuse.org Vendor : openSUSE URL : http://www.tug.org/texlive/ Summary : A BibTeX replacement for users of biblatex Description : Biber is a BibTeX replacement for users of biblatex. Biber supports full UTF-8, can (re)-encode input and output, supports highly configurable sorting, dynamic bibliography sets and many other features. The CTAN distribution offers a compressed tar archive of the sources, etc., together with "binary" distributions for a variety of platforms. Note: on SourceForge biber is formally named "biblatex-biber", to distinguish it from an earlier (now apparently moribund) project called "biber". date: 2012-04-01 18:46:39 +0000 Distribution: openSUSE 12.3 arun@ape:~/tmp/tmp8>rpm -qi texlive-biber-bin Name : texlive-biber-bin Version : 2012.20120611.svn25858 Release : 3.6.3 Architecture: x86_64 Install Date: Mon 05 Aug 2013 11:51:02 AM PDT Group : Productivity/Publishing/TeX/Utilities Size : 7609918 License : LPPL-1.0 Signature : RSA/SHA256, Mon 05 Aug 2013 02:42:35 AM PDT, Key ID b88b2fd43dbdc284 Source RPM : texlive-2012.20120611-3.6.3.src.rpm Build Date : Thu 25 Jul 2013 08:52:17 AM PDT Build Host : cloud121 Relocations : /usr/bin Packager : http://bugs.opensuse.org Vendor : openSUSE URL : http://www.tug.org/texlive/ Summary : Binary files of biber Description : Binary files of biber Distribution: openSUSE 12.3 arun@ape:~/tmp/tmp8>uname -a Linux ape 3.10.3-19.gec6c1d9-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Jul 26 05:54:19 UTC 2013 (ec6c1d9) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. use attached files taken from http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/biblatex.html including some names changes and using biber backend 2. run pdflatex test.tex 3. run biber test no bbl file created Actual Results: when running biber I get the following text printed on stdout: arun@ape:~/tmp/tmp8>biber test INFO - This is Biber 0.9.9 INFO - Logfile is 'test.blg' INFO - Reading 'test.bcf' INFO - Found 1 citekeys in bib section 0 INFO - Processing bib section 0 INFO - Looking for bibtex format file 'test.bib' for section 0 INFO - Found BibTeX data source 'test.bib' INFO - Sorting list 'MAIN' keys INFO - No sort tailoring available for locale 'en_US.UTF-8' INFO - Sorting list 'SHORTHANDS' keys INFO - No sort tailoring available for locale 'en_US.UTF-8' INFO - Writing 'test.bbl' with encoding 'ascii' % $ biblatex auxiliary file $ % $ biblatex version 1.7 $ % $ biber version 0.9.9 $ % Do not modify the above lines! % % This is an auxiliary file used by the 'biblatex' package. % This file may safely be deleted. It will be recreated by % biber or bibtex as required. % \begingroup \makeatletter \@ifundefined{ver@biblatex.sty} {\@latex@error {Missing 'biblatex' package} {The bibliography requires the 'biblatex' package.} \aftergroup\endinput} {} \endgroup \refsection{0} \entry{KandR}{book}{} \name{labelname}{2}{}{% {{hash=1052228cbdc74ef71d9c24c30ddc01ef}{Kernighan}{K\bibinitperiod}{Brian\bibnamedelima W.}{B\bibinitperiod\bibinitdelim W\bibinitperiod}{}{}{}{}}% {{hash=42af644cbe8be3fb0872492484150c5e}{Ritchie}{R\bibinitperiod}{Dennis\bibnamedelima M.}{D\bibinitperiod\bibinitdelim M\bibinitperiod}{}{}{}{}}% } \name{author}{2}{}{% {{hash=1052228cbdc74ef71d9c24c30ddc01ef}{Kernighan}{K\bibinitperiod}{Brian\bibnamedelima W.}{B\bibinitperiod\bibinitdelim W\bibinitperiod}{}{}{}{}}% {{hash=42af644cbe8be3fb0872492484150c5e}{Ritchie}{R\bibinitperiod}{Dennis\bibnamedelima M.}{D\bibinitperiod\bibinitdelim M\bibinitperiod}{}{}{}{}}% } \list{publisher}{1}{% {Prentice-Hall, Inc.}% } \strng{namehash}{7504cc867375f33ae6c760d0facfc70a} \strng{fullhash}{7504cc867375f33ae6c760d0facfc70a} \field{sortinit}{K} \field{title}{{The C Programming Language Second Edition}} \field{year}{1988} \endentry \endrefsection \endinput INFO - Output to test.bbl test.bbl does _not_ exist afterwards Expected Results: creation of test.bbl -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.