How to fix error "LaTeX mark Error: Infinite shrinkage found in 'column'." in overleaf

Question

I encounter this error, happening at least 6 times in my document. It happens either at the end of a section (e.g. on the line where I have \section{Related Works}) or at the end of paragraph before an equation (e.g. ... is calculated by the formula: \begin{equation} ), and also at the end of the document \end{document}. But I also have ends of sections and many equations where this does not occur. I also noticed the warning "Underfull \hbox" on every section that comes before the problematic error point. The compiled pdf file looks fine, but I cannot create a submission file for my article using overleaf without fixing the errors.

I tried:

• adding \\ or even \\ \\ at the ends of sections
• Removing any \\ from any paragraph in the section
• Adding manual empty lines at the line before the new section, then the error was pointing to the empty line
• removing many packages from the beginning of the document that I thought might be relevant, e.g. enumitem
• Removing the \label{} command that comes after the \section{} command.

All of those didn't affect the errors at all. When I tried adding \par at the end of the section where the error occurs, the same error now occured on the paragraph above the last. When I added \par on every paragraph in the section, the error occured on the first line of the section.

When changing the document type at the beginning from twocolumns to singlecolumn, the errors vanish but the article is intended to be in two columns.

\documentclass[10pt,twocolumn,letterpaper]{article}

%\usepackage{wacv}
\usepackage{times}
\usepackage{epsfig}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[ruled,vlined,linesnumbered]{algorithm2e}
\usepackage{physics}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\usepackage{appendix}

\definecolor{codegreen}{rgb}{0.0,0.6,0.0}
\newcommand\mycommfont[1]{\footnotesize\ttfamily\textcolor{codegreen}{#1}}
\SetCommentSty{mycommfont}
\usepackage{float} 
\usepackage{nidanfloat}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{datetime}

\makeatletter
\makeatother

% \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

\usepackage{tabulary}
\usepackage{colortbl}
\usepackage[
    backend=bibtex,
    style=ieee,
  ]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{export.bib}

%box color commands in table
\newcommand{\gb}{\cellcolor{green!12}}
\newcommand{\ob}{\cellcolor{orange!12}}
\newcommand{\rb}{\cellcolor{red!12}}
\newcommand{\bb}{\cellcolor{black!12}}
\newcommand{\dc}[1]{\textbf{\textsc{#1}}}

% Include other packages here, before hyperref.
\usepackage[breaklinks=true,colorlinks,bookmarks=false]{hyperref}

%\wacvfinalcopy % *** Uncomment this line for the final submission

%\def\wacvPaperID{****} % *** Enter the wacv Paper ID here
\def\httilde{\mbox{\tt\raisebox{-.5ex}{\symbol{126}}}}

% Pages are numbered in submission mode, and unnumbered in camera-ready
% \ifwacvfinal\pagestyle{empty}\fi


\setcounter{page}{1}


\title{text text text text text}

\begin{document}

\author{
author0\thanks{Corresponding author.} \hspace{1cm} author1 \hspace{1cm} author2 \vspace*{1mm}\\
affiliation University \\
{\tt\small author0@email \{author1,author2\}@email}
}
\date{\vspace{-5ex}} % Remove date

\twocolumn[{%
\renewcommand\twocolumn[1][]{#1}%
\maketitle
\begin{minipage}{1.0\linewidth}
\begin{center}
    \vspace{-5mm}
    \captionsetup{type=figure}
    \framebox(350,200){}
    \captionof{figure}{text text text text text.}
    \label{fig:1}
\end{center}
\end{minipage}
}]
%%%%%%%%% ABSTRACT
\begin{abstract}
text text text text text.
\noindent The code is publicly available at: \url{https://address}
\end{abstract}

%%%%%%%%% BODY TEXT
% ------------------ Introduction-----------------
\section{Introduction} \label{introduction}% 
text text text text text. 
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\section{Related Work} \label{related_work}
\noindent \textbf{subtitle.}`
text text text text text
\end{document}

I saw this issue but in my case I don't have the nameref package. Adding it didn't change anything.

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Minimal Example

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{nidanfloat}

\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\twocolumn[\rule{2cm}{300pt}]
\lipsum
\end{document}

Answer 1

As suggested by @UlrikeFischer and @DavidCarlisle in the comments, the package nidanfloat caused the issue. Removing \usepackage{nidanfloat} solved the issue for me as the package was apparently not needed.