LaTeX-Workshop: LaTeX toolchain terminated with error

Description

Building a .tex file does not work. latexmk and texlive is properly installed.

How to reproduce

Open a .tex file
Press ctrl+shift+p
Search for Build LaTeX project and hit enter.

Expected behavior

Correct PDF is created.

Actual behavior

In the .tex file folder filename.fdb_latexmk and filename.aux are generated. filename.fdb_latexmk contains:

# Fdb version 3
["pdflatex"] 1499886694 "/home/nfode/test/test.tex" "test.pdf" "test" 1499886694
  "/home/nfode/test/test.tex" 1499886430 2444 f714e27fca8b549e8ee059a2ea1aa60f ""
  "test.aux" 1499886441 8 a94a2480d3289e625eea47cd1b285758 ""
  (generated)
  "test.log"
  "test.pdf"

filename.aux contains:

\relax

And there is the error: LaTeX toolchain terminated with error in the statusbar.

LaTeX Workshop log messages

Log messages

There are no log messages.

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 7 years ago
Comments: 16 (3 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

I had to completely restart VS Code (quit all instances) before it was able to find latexmk.

+13

tvald on Aug 1, 2017

[17:58:35] LaTeX fatal error: spawn latexmk ENOENT, . Does the executable exist?

The extension cannot find latexmk, which should be in PATH. Otherwise, you need to specify its location.

James-Yu on Jul 15, 2017

on my case the solution was to create a ~/.bash_profile with this line export PATH="/usr/local/texlive/2017/bin/x86_64-darwin:$PATH" and to configure my default shell to bash.

viasisco on Aug 22, 2017

on my case the solution was to create a ~/.bash_profile with this line export PATH=“/usr/local/texlive/2017/bin/x86_64-darwin:$PATH” and to configure my default shell to bash.

that does not solve the problem on my mac, neither does a complete restart of VSCode. It’s very strange as it has been working fine just a few hours ago…

p.s. running the latexmk build command manually from within the VSCode terminal works just fine…

davydden on Dec 12, 2018