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I noticed some time ago that biber seem to have stopped working for me:

Example taken from here:

\documentclass[]{article}

\usepackage[autostyle]{csquotes}

\usepackage[
backend=biber,
style=authoryear-icomp,
sortlocale=de_DE,
natbib=true,
url=false, 
doi=true,
eprint=false
]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

\usepackage[]{hyperref}
\hypersetup{
colorlinks=true,
}

%% ##############################
\begin{document}
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet~\citep{kastenholz}.
At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum~\citet{sigfridsson}.
\printbibliography 
\end{document}

Results in

fish: Job 1, “biber test.bcf” terminated by signal SIGSEGV (Address boundary error)

or in zsh

[1] 21077 segmentation fault (core dumped) biber test.bcf

Rendered pdf

Do you have any idea why this happens? I'm running out of ideas...

Thanks for any suggestions in advance!

Edit: Maybe I should add that I'm using a freshly installed biblatex-biber 1.8-2 with all the up-to-date perl-dependencies in AUR.

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  • delete the temporary files of the old biber program. For Linux you'll find the files under /tmp/par-<hexnumber> –  Jul 09 '14 at 10:41
  • There is no /tmp/par-*. The only files containing "biber" in /tmp are in /tmp/yaourt-tmp-root/aur-biblatex-biber/ from the reinstalling. Deleting these does not make any differences. :/ – Suuuehgi Jul 09 '14 at 10:47
  • I am using OpenSUSE with that directory. However, run biber --tool-config and it shows the directory –  Jul 09 '14 at 11:37

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It works again! \(^_^)/

I noticed a less vacuous message in /proc/kmsg which stated the segfault to happen in Simple.so from the perl-date-simple-package. This raised a cascade of other segfaults but finally after rebuilding

  • perl-date-simple
  • perl-unicode-gcstring
  • perl-autovivification and
  • perl-text-bibtex

it works again properly.

Due to this update, I think that it is an Arch-Linux thingy. In this case, if anybody encounters a comparable problem, try rebuilding all the biblatex-biber dependencies. You can get them via:

pacman -Qi biblatex-biber
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