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I have a big problem. I am writing my phd thesis and started to use latex recently. I developed some basic skills that helped out me most time. But at the moment I dont know how to solve the problem. Every time I try to typeset the tex-file, the console says this:

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.11 (TeX Live 2010)
 \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./Promotion4.tex
LaTeX2e <2009/09/24>
Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang, nohyphenation, ge
rman-x-2009-06-19, ngerman-x-2009-06-19, ancientgreek, ibycus, arabic, armenian
, basque, bulgarian, catalan, pinyin, coptic, croatian, czech, danish, dutch, u
kenglish, usenglishmax, esperanto, estonian, farsi, finnish, french, galician, 
german, ngerman, swissgerman, monogreek, greek, hungarian, icelandic, assamese,
 bengali, gujarati, hindi, kannada, malayalam, marathi, oriya, panjabi, tamil, 
telugu, indonesian, interlingua, irish, italian, kurmanji, lao, latin, latvian,
 lithuanian, mongolian, mongolianlmc, bokmal, nynorsk, polish, portuguese, roma
nian, russian, sanskrit, serbian, slovak, slovenian, spanish, swedish, turkish,
 turkmen, ukrainian, uppersorbian, welsh, loaded.
(/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/book.cls
Document Class: book 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/bk12.clo))
(/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/babel.sty
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(/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/babel.def)))
(/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty
(/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/applemac.def))
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(/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/latex/etex-pkg/etex.sty))
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x (/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/latex/biblatex/bbx/authortitle.bbx
(/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/latex/biblatex/bbx/standard.bbx)))
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Package csquotes Warning: Option 'babel' depreciated.
(csquotes)                Using 'autostyle' on input line 2327.

) (/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fancyhdr/fancyhdr.sty)
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(/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/latex/latexconfig/hyperref.cfg)
(/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/latex/oberdiek/kvoptions.sty)

/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/latex/hyperref/hyperref.sty:3577: Packag
e keyval Error: cross-reference undefined.

See the keyval package documentation for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...                                              

l.3577 \ProcessKeyvalOptions{Hyp}

I tried all the shortcuts to ignore the warnings and errors, but nothing helps. In the end I dont get the pdf-file and I it feels like destroying all the work I have done so far.

So if anyone knows how to fix the problem, that would be great.

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    Without a minimal example, we are not going to be able to say what is wrong.
    – Joseph Wright ♦
    May 23, 2011 at 16:35
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    Don't panic. It is an hyperref error and these are always solved fast. Check at first your hyperref version. E.g. in the log. If it is older than mine (2011/04/17 v6.82g) update and then try again.
    – Ulrike Fischer
    May 23, 2011 at 16:48
  • @ Joseph: Thanks for the commend. What you touched upon is the next part of the problem. I dont know what minimal example in this case would look like. Shall I provide an example of the preamble? Or a piece of text including some commands?
    – Philip
    May 23, 2011 at 16:55
  • @Philip: Have a look at the link Joseph provided. Basically, a MWE is a tex-sample that only contains what's necessary to reproduce the problem. You can get there by stripping your document of elements/parts/things one by one (e.g. starting with big text passages, other packages ...), compiling in between to make sure the problem's still there. This way, you can narrow down the source of the problem. For more details, follow the link.
    – doncherry
    May 23, 2011 at 17:17
  • Now that I see the output in a code environment: The problem is probably a wrong option. E.g.\usepackage[cross-reference]{hyperref} would give this error.
    – Ulrike Fischer
    May 23, 2011 at 17:21

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From the comments, the MWE is

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[cross-reference]{hyperref}
\begin{document}
\end{document}

As observed by others, cross-reference is not a valid option for hyperref, so the error message is entirely correct.

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