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LaTeX compiler giving "Illegal seek" error

TeX - LaTeX Asked by L. Blignaut on May 6, 2021

I have TexStudio installed, whenever I try to compile the .tex file, the compiler runs for a bit, then I get the abovementioned error. This happens in TexStudio, as well as in Terminal using pdflatex. Any clues? I’m using Pop!_Os 20.04

The following is the pdflatex output:

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.20 (TeX Live 2019/Debian) (preloaded format=pdflatex)

restricted write18 enabled.

entering extended mode

(./tables.tex

LaTeX2e <2020-02-02> patch level 2

L3 programming layer <2020-02-14>

(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls

Document Class: article 2019/12/20 v1.4l Standard LaTeX document class

(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))

(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsmath.sty

For additional information on amsmath, use the ?' option.`

(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amstext.sty

(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsgen.sty))

(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsbsy.sty)

(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsopn.sty))

(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amscls/amsthm.sty)

(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/booktabs/booktabs.sty)

(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/url/url.sty)

(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3backend/l3backend-pdfmode.def)

(./tables.aux) [1{/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}pdflatex: tables: Illegal seek

One Answer

I had the same problem when trying to compile in OneDrive mounted with rclone. The problem disappeared when I implemented a solution to make Libre Office work with rclone as suggested here https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/2906#issuecomment-574741176.

The solution is to add a flag when mounting the cloud storage

rclone mount remote:path_to_remote path_to_local_folder --vfs-cache-mode writes

This is also mentioned in the limitation of the mount option for rclone http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/cosmic/man1/rclone.1.html

Correct answer by erika on May 6, 2021

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