Debug infinite loop in text file and other stuff [closed]

Question

I have some old code that I am trying to revive. I worked fine before but now it does not, but the code has not changed(so it is due to the changed configuration of the software). There is no real error messages that make sense.

The problem is that there seems to be a package or packages that are interfering because when I remove them the tex code compiles but, of course, lots of errors.

I have gotten some of the code to work by removing the code that depended on the packages. (if the only line is the usepackage statement, it still crashes, meaning it is the package)

The packages are

xparse atbegshi xfrac mdframed(a lot of my code depends on this)

Package: xpatch 2012/10/02 v0.3 Extending etoolbox patching commands
.................................................
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Runaway argument?
\q_stop \exp_args:NNo \group_end: \iow_log:n \l__iow_wrap_tl \iow_log:n \ETC.
! File ended while scanning use of \__iow_wrap_loop:w.

After removing some stuff the infinite loop goes away(I think it is mainly mdframed and xparse).

It seems to be some issue with some stale packages, any ideas where to look or what I can do to try and figure it out?

%\tracingall
\documentclass[12pt,oneside]{book}\batchmode

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{silence}
\usepackage[x11names]{xcolor}
\usepackage[margin=1in,a4paper]{geometry} % a5paper for electronic reading
\usepackage{luatex, graphicx}
\usepackage[space]{grffile}
\usepackage{tikz, pgffor}
\usepackage{pdfcolmk}
\usepackage[export]{adjustbox}
\usepackage{chngpage}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{xparse}
\usepackage{everypage}
\usepackage{afterpage}
\usepackage{pdfpages}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\usepackage{indentfirst}
\usepackage{relsize}
\usepackage{endnotes}
\usepackage{placeins}
\usepackage{flafter}
\usepackage{inconsolata}
\usepackage{fancyvrb}
\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage{letltxmacro}
%\usepackage[framemethod=TikZ]{mdframed}
%\usepackage{xpatch}
%\usepackage{atbegshi}
\usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}
%\usepackage{movie15}
%\usepackage{xfrac}






















\scrollmode


%\batchmode
\begin{document}\scrollmode%\chapendfootnote





\batchmode\end{document}

Using miktex 2.9. It could be my install but this should work(again, it used to)

Answer 1

This compiles fine (note what is commented out here: the \batchmode commands; the silence package, and the line with the luatex pacakge).

%\tracingall
\documentclass[12pt,oneside]{book}
%\batchmode

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
%\usepackage{silence}
\usepackage[x11names]{xcolor}
\usepackage[margin=1in,a4paper]{geometry} % a5paper for electronic reading
%\usepackage{luatex, graphicx}
\usepackage[space]{grffile}
\usepackage{tikz, pgffor}
\usepackage{pdfcolmk}
\usepackage[export]{adjustbox}
\usepackage{chngpage}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{xparse}
\usepackage{everypage}
\usepackage{afterpage}
\usepackage{pdfpages}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\usepackage{indentfirst}
\usepackage{relsize}
\usepackage{endnotes}
\usepackage{placeins}
\usepackage{flafter}
\usepackage{inconsolata}
\usepackage{fancyvrb}
\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage{letltxmacro}
\usepackage[framemethod=TikZ]{mdframed}
\usepackage{xpatch}
\usepackage{atbegshi}
\usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}
\usepackage{movie15}
\usepackage{xfrac}


%\scrollmode
%\batchmode
\begin{document}
%\scrollmode%\chapendfootnote

asdf % <-- add some content

%\batchmode
\end{document}

Remarks

• Do not use \batchmode if you don't know what it's for; and if you do know what it's for, you know that you should not use it when trying to find an error. Same for \scrollmode.

• Aguably, the silence package should not be used when trying to locate an error either. (However, it is probably fine in most cases to leave it in.)

• The package luatex.sty cannot be used with the pdfTeX engine, but other packages, such as fontenc indicate that you intend to use pdfTeX.

• If you give a 100+ files, you are probably not providing a minimal example, which is often required for others to provide a meaningful solution. (This is not about 'attitude', but general point about what is usually the best and quickest way to get a useful and/or meaningful solution.)

  • Thus, if the file provided in the question is not meaningfully related to the 'real' problem with the 'real' file, there is no guarantee that solving the problems with the file given in the question will also solve the 'real' problem.

Edit

If you are using LuaTeX as the engine, for this example at least, you need to either not load movie15.sty (which is obsolete anyway) or load luatex85.sty, which helps deal with the major changes introduced in versions of LuaTeX > 0.80. But, as a general rule, you should also not load fontenc.