Bug 425182

Summary:	Livepreview: continued compilation of prev failed/aborted compilation can fail
Product:	[Applications] kile	Reporter:	Albert Zeyer <albzey>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Michel Ludwig <michel.ludwig>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	cfeck
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	master
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
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Bug Blocks:	342772

Description Albert Zeyer 2020-08-10 09:54:41 UTC

SUMMARY

This is about LivePreview.

When the compilation is in progress, as soon as I type anything into the document, it aborts and kills the compilation.

When it continues the compilation at some point, because of previous aborts, some aux files are broken, and then the PDF either fails to compile, or is partly incorrect.

I guess the best way is to never continue a failed compilation, but to always start afresh.


STEPS TO REPRODUCE

I think it is relevant to have a big Latex project (such that compilation time is not instant, such that you have a chance to trigger this).

I created this demo project: https://github.com/albertz/big-latex-demo

Then trigger live preview compilation, then type sth, maybe switch tabs or so, such that it causes an abort of the live preview. Now undo your changes, and again trigger the live preview compilation. It will try to continue the previous compilation. And this can fail now, if aux files are incomplete/broken.


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EXPECTED RESULT


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Linux/KDE Plasma: Ubuntu 20.04
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