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I have a problem where citations are correctly displayed on one machine (OSX 10.5) but fail on another machine (Ubuntu 10.04).

citation generated

citation failed

Basically I have a set of .tex files and a .bib file and run the following commands to produce a PDF file: 

pdflatex main  # there's main.tex
biber main
pdflatex main
pdflatex main

Comparing logs from the two machines, it seems .bbl file is not created on the machine that failed to produce proper citation. 

Package biblatex Info: ... file 'main.bbl' not found.
No file main.bbl.

Should biber produce the bbl file? How should I go about troubleshooting why this process doesn't work on Ubuntu?

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Are you telling biblatex to use Biber (with \usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex}? If so, you should get a .blg file containing any errors/warnings, once you've run Biber. By the way, with biblatex you only normally need to run pdflatex once after running Biber. – Joseph Wright♦ Apr 18 '12 at 6:34
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Try running manually biber. Its installation can get corrupted, but in this case the shell message should be clear about it. – egreg Apr 18 '12 at 6:44
Yes, biber creates the .bbl so see what biber says when you run it – PLK Apr 18 '12 at 18:02
Good to know about running pdflatex just once after biber. @JosephWright – Grnbeagle Apr 18 '12 at 18:45
Yes, @egreg and PLK running biber alone helped troubleshoot the issue. Thanks for the suggestion! – Grnbeagle Apr 18 '12 at 18:48

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This was due to a data issue in .bib file-- as @egreg suggested, running biber by itself helped track down the problem. (not quite sure why the problem didn't appear in OSX) Thanks for your suggestions!

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