[publican-list] Some help with Publican failures

[Fintan Bolton]

It would be nice to get this fixed upstream in the wkhtmltopdf code
base. It's just wkhtmltopdf being sloppy about closing file descriptors.

On 09/08/2013 01:53, Jeff Fearn wrote:
> On 08/09/2013 05:20 AM, Mark Miesfeld wrote:
>> Our project uses DocBook source for our documentation.  Some time ago we
>> switched to Publican to produce the final PDF files.
>>
>> I got things working with Publican 2.8.2 and have been stuck there
>> because,
>> although there were some problems, I could at least produce the final PDF
>> file.
>>
>> Today I made the effort to upgrade to Publican 3.1.5 so that hopefully I
>> can move on to 3.2.0 when an install rpm is available.
>>
>> I installed wkhtmltopdf from a link Jeff provided last month:
>>
>> http://jfearn.fedorapeople.**org/wkhtmltopdf/<http://jfearn.fedorapeople.org/wkhtmltopdf/>
>>
>>
>> where he also said: All of these changes are compatible with Publican
>> 3.1.5
>>
>> The two main problems I have, Jeff suggested that wkhtmltopdf would fix.
>>
>> Now with 3.1.5 I have 2 problems:
>>
>> 1.) While building I start getting these errors for every single
>> page.  It
>> starts with page 511:
>>
>> file:///usr/share/publican/book_templates/header.html?page=511
>>
>> Error: Failed loading page
>> file:///usr/share/publican/book_templates/header.html?page=1726&section=Revision
>>
>> History&title=ooRexx Documentation 4.2.3 ooDialog Reference
>> 4.2.3&subsection=X&frompage=1&subsubsection=A.9.10.
>> setCursorPos&topage=1723&doctitle=ooRexx Documentation 4.2.3 ooDialog
>> Reference 4.2.3&webpage=tmp/en-US/html-pdf/index.html&time=10:09
>> AM&date=8/8/13 (sometimes it will work just to ignore this error with
>> --load-error-handling ignore)
>>
>> I get one error for both header.html and footer.html.  The files do exist
>> at the location and it would seem that the first 500 pages things work
>>
>> What does the error message mean?
>>
>> 2.) Then things just abend:
>>
>> Error: Failed loading page
>> file:///usr/share/publican/book_templates/footer.html?page=1726&section=Revision
>>
>> History&title=ooRexx Documentation 4.2.3 ooDialog Reference
>> 4.2.3&subsection=X&frompage=1&subsubsection=A.9.10.
>> setCursorPos&topage=1723&doctitle=ooRexx Documentation 4.2.3 ooDialog
>> Reference 4.2.3&webpage=tmp/en-US/html-pdf/index.html&time=10:09
>> AM&date=8/8/13 (sometimes it will work just to ignore this error with
>> --load-error-handling ignore)
>> QPaintDevice: Cannot destroy paint device that is being painted
>>
>> wkhtmltopdf died, PDF generation failed. Check log for details.
>>   at /usr/bin/publican line 921
>>
>> What log, where?
>>
>> This book is, admittedly, a little large.  Can wkhtmltopdf just not
>> handle
>> a large book?
>>
>> Any ideas or help?
> 
> Hi Mark, looks like you are hitting the file handle limit. If so you
> need to change ulimts.
> 
> http://jfearn.fedorapeople.org/en-US/Publican/3.2/html/Users_Guide/chap-Users_Guide-Frequently_Asked_Questions.html#idp24423296
> 
> 
> Cheers, Jeff.
> 

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