New subject: [Bug 833815] texlive biber doesn't create bbl file

7 Aug 2013

      https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=833815

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           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)
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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

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