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pdf build fails with BibTeX error

See original GitHub issue

Attempting to buld a simple latex file :

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\begin{document}

\title{Introduction to \LaTeX{}}
\author{Author's Name}

\maketitle

\begin{abstract}
The abstract text goes here.
\end{abstract}

\section{Introduction}
Here is the text of your introduction.

\begin{equation}
    \label{simple_equation}
    \alpha = \sqrt{ \beta }
\end{equation}

\subsection{Subsection Heading Here}
Write your subsection text here.

\begin{figure}
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=3.0in]{f1.png}
    \caption{Simulation Results}
    \label{simulationfigure}
\end{figure}

\section{Conclusion}
Write your conclusion here.

\end{document}

I got this log in the jupyterlab LaTex error page:

This is BibTeX, Version 0.99d (TeX Live 2015/Debian)
The top-level auxiliary file: test.aux
I found no \citation commands---while reading file test.aux
I found no \bibdata command---while reading file test.aux
I found no \bibstyle command---while reading file test.aux
(There were 3 error messages)

On the server side I had this printed in the shell logs:

[E 22:11:08.462 LabApp] 500 GET /latex/Geoscience_250279/test.tex?1517346661474 (24.60.210.45) 6748.27ms referer=http://localhost.com:8888/lab?
[E 22:11:15.299 LabApp] LaTeX command `bibtex test` errored with code: 2
[E 22:11:15.300 LabApp] {
      "Host": "localhost:8888",
      "Connection": "keep-alive",
      "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_2) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/63.0.3239.132 Safari/537.36",
      "Authorization": "token 61a9550d5582b66719ad3d0182eff3f073044bcbc98e175b",
      "Content-Type": "application/json",
      "Accept": "*/*",
      "Referer": "http://localhost.com:8888/lab?",
      "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate",
      "Accept-Language": "en-US,en;q=0.9,it;q=0.8",
      "Cookie": "_xsrf=2|0b5c6cb6|ca94c1b60c2d87a63763bb86543ebd5e|1515963402; username-epinux-com-7777=\"2|1:0|10:1515986637|24:username-epinux-com-7777|44:ZGNmZThiZWRkMTk1NDM1OWEzYmEwZTc1NzU4YmFhYTM=|063e5c9ce720c0d41be769861981f393a24732b7b2fa0bb6b090f05303eeee48\"; G_ENABLED_IDPS=google; username-epinux-com-8888=\"2|1:0|10:1517346668|24:username-epinux-com-8888|44:M2U0NzhhMjBhYjFkNGQ5N2FkYmI0NGU4NjcyNWRmZmQ=|c1016701feba63f47a89022f5470618fec41aede7153c1c731457aae9bea778e\""
    }
[E 22:11:15.300 LabApp] 500 GET /latex/Geoscience_250279/test.tex?1517346668437 (24.60.210.45) 6787.85ms referer=http://localhost:8888/lab?

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mpacercommented, Jan 30, 2018

OH! i see what’s happening. you have a .bib file in the same directory and we’re using that as a current proxy for you wanting to run bibtex. We’ll need a smarter check for whether someone is using a bibfile in https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab-latex/blob/b52ffaa8bd460c87491bc9520ea2ef66f6194d40/jupyterlab_latex/__init__.py#L142-L151

We were trying to avoid parsing the file as a first pass… but i think we may need to do so…

@ian-r-rose, does that sound right to you?

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EWouterscommented, Dec 3, 2018

I have the same issue. I see the problem had been identified. It shouldn’t be too hard to parse the tex file for any reference to the bib package right? Maybe also parse the included tex files…

This is a really cool addition to Jupyter!