Pandoc hangs with --bibliography option

[Frederik Elwert]

When calling pandoc with the "--bibliography" option, it hangs (i.e., it runs forever and does not produce output).

This issue was present in earlier pandoc packages in Ubuntu, but could then be fixed by installing additional packages on which the bibliography feature depends (see http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/faqs.html#pandoc-hangs-when-i-try-to-use---bibliography). In 13.10, it hangs despite these packages being installed.

When installing pandoc through Haskell’s own package manager (cabal), it works fine. So I guess that this is again a packaging issue and pandoc does not find some required files for citation processing.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: pandoc 1.11.1-2build2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-31.46-generic 3.8.13.8
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-31-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Nov 1 10:19:07 2013
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-07-20 (103 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: pandoc
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-10-12 (19 days ago)

[Magnus Hellman (magnus-hellman)]

Same happens for me. Same pandoc version and also on Sausy except for 32Bit.

I tried installing through cabal too but that did not fix it for me. Still stuck.

[Frederik Elwert (frederik-elwert)]

Sure you are using the cabal version? You can find out by trying "pandoc --version". If not, you might need to alter your path.

[Kevin (lionandoil)]

I had the same issue (whether using the repo version or a cabal build of 1.11) but it seems to be solved from v1.12 upwards, i.e. it doesn't seem to be a packaging issue. This is probably due to the switch to pandoc-citeproc (instead of using haskell-citeproc-hs directly), as well as containing a number of other fixes relating to bibliography stuff. A package release of 1.12.2 (bundling pandoc-citeproc into the same package?) and removal of the haskell-citeproc-hs dependency should make everyone happy.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[era (era)]

Marked this as "Fix Released" as I do not experience it out of the box on 14.04. If somebody can reproduce on 14.04, please feel free to reopen.