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I have a problem: while compiling a LateX document, the compiler got stuck. I does not return errors or anything, simply it has been executing for over four hours for only 30 pages.

There was not any problem with the same document until today. I have tried to uninstall and reinstall both TeXmaker and MikteX and to update the packages.

I think there is some problem with the packages I use, and there they are:

\documentclass[a4paper, 11pt, oneside]{book}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[italian]{babel} 
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{ucs}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{positioning}
\usetikzlibrary{shadows}
\usetikzlibrary {er}
\usepackage{tikz-er2}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{epstopdf}


\pdfpagewidth\paperwidth
\pdfpageheight\paperheight
\onehalfspacing

\pagestyle{headings}
%\doublespacing


\begin{document}

I am using MikTeX on Windows10.

Thanks in advance for any help,

Valentina

EDIT1 Sorry, I am actually new both to LateX and this community, and I cannot comment back; however I did what @David Carlisle said and in the log file there are about 200 000 rows saying:

\tikz@signal@path ->\tikz@signal@path

I used tikz package to draw vectors in an example, it is updated, I tried to install and uninstall but nothing different happened. I commented also the package you suggested not to use, but it just continues compiling.

EDIT2:

I am trying to figure out my two accounts, but it seems I own only one both linked to stackExchange and TeX-LateX. However I found this problematic picture:

\begin{figure}[h]
\centering
\begin{tikzpicture}
%x axis
\draw[->] (-1,0) -- (4,0) node[below] {$x$};
\foreach \x in {-1,1,2,...,3}
\draw[shift={(\x,0)}] (0pt,2pt) -- (0pt,-2pt) node[below]{\footnotesize $\x$};
%y axis
\draw[->] (0,-1) -- (0,4) node[left] {$y$};
\foreach \y in {-1,1,2,...,3}
\draw[shift={(0,\y)}] (2pt,0pt) -- (-2pt,0pt) node[left] {\footnotesize $\y$};
\node[below left] at (0,0) {\footnotesize $0$};

\draw[-latex] (0,0)--(1,2); 
\draw[-latex] (0,0)--(3,2.5);
\draw (0.5,1.8) \node{$\bm{v_1}$}; 
\draw (3,2) \node{$\bm{v_2}$}; 

\end{tikzpicture}

\end{figure}

I can't see anything wrong; I did not have modified it, and before yesterday it worked. Thanks for your help.

Valentina
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  • stop that run and add \tracingonline=1\tracingmacros=1 , then re-run it and you should see tex logging where it has got stuck (it will still loop so you will still need to kill the process) – David Carlisle Feb 16 '17 at 19:39
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    the example isn't much help unless you can edit it to be an example of the problem. – David Carlisle Feb 16 '17 at 19:40
  • without an example it is hard to say but if you want comments just on your package list I would use \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} not utf8x and most likely you do not need ucs or epstopdf packages, so you could try with those changes. – David Carlisle Feb 16 '17 at 19:47
  • You will have an error in one of your tikz pictures. the log shows [1] [2] as it outputs each page so you should be able to work out which tikzpicture it is. try to make a small example with just that tikzpicture and see if it generates the problem. – David Carlisle Feb 16 '17 at 22:20
  • google for tikz@signal@path errors suggests that you might have a mis matched ] see http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/338869/pdflatex-hangs-on-a-pending – David Carlisle Feb 16 '17 at 22:23
  • Does Italian have shorthands? If so, add \usetikzlibrary{babel}. Probably not the issue here, but maybe useful. Consider using something like geometry rather than setting layout dimensions manually. geometry will make sure the backend paper size matches the layout automatically. – cfr Feb 17 '17 at 02:49
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    In that tikz picture the last two lines are malformed, but you should get an error at that point: ! Package tikz Error: Giving up on this path. Did you forget a semicolon? rather than a stuck compilation – Chris H Feb 17 '17 at 08:57
  • I did not get any error or any warning, I don't know why. I deleted the last two lines, and it worked. I will try again to insert the two labels for the vectors. Thanks – Valentina Feb 17 '17 at 09:16
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    Either \node at ... or \draw (1,1) node .... Note the lack of backslash in the second case. – cfr Feb 17 '17 at 13:48

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