Problem with mass rebuild / latex2html errors

[Simone Caronni]

Hello,

I have a problem on the bacula-docs package in Fedora 20. Build was stuck
for 15 hours and then killed by Koji:

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=5698742

I was able to reproduce it locally with mock; all the "latex2html" commands
get stuck indefinitely. An example command from the Koji build:


make[1]: Entering directory
`/builddir/build/BUILD/bacula-docs-5.2.13/manuals/en/developers'
[...]
latex2html -split 4 -local_icons -t "Developer's Guide" -long_titles 4 \
-toc_stars -contents_in_nav -init_file latex2html-init.pl \
-no_antialias -no_antialias_text \
-white -notransparent developers >tex.out 2>&1
make[1]: *** [web] Error 1


If I look into the tex.out log file I can see that the command gets stuck
creating an infinite line of dots. Example:


$ tail 2 tex.out | less
==> tex.out <==
;...;..

120/213:subsection:...."Minimal Code in Console Program" for General.html
;..;...

121/213:subsection:...."GUI Interface is Difficult" for General.html
;..,....,....,...;...........
...
122/213:section:...."Bvfs API" for Bvfs_API.html
;...,.................................................. [...]


The moment I stopped my mock build that was running for 3 minutes I already
had an 18 mb file; 90% of it filled with dots in the last line.

Any idea / insight on where to look for clues / fixes?

Thanks,
--Simone



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