Package footmisc causes pdfTeX error

Question

When using the footmisc package it causes many PdfTeX errors in my thesis:

pdfTeX warning (dest): name{Hfootnote.1} has beend referenced but does not exist, replaced by a fixed one

Here is a MWE:

\documentclass[12pt, oneside]{Thesis}

\usepackage[backend=biber, autocite=footnote, citestyle=authoryear-icomp, bibstyle=authoryear]{biblatex}
\usepackage[bottom, hang]{footmisc}
\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents*}{jobname.bib}
    @book{SomeSource,
        author = {The Author},
        year = {2015},
        title = {The Title}
    }
\end{filecontents*}

\addbibresource{jobname.bib}

\begin{document}
Some Text.\autocite[][123]{SomeSource}{}
\printbibliography[]
\end{document}

I found several posts saying, that one should load the hyperref package after all other packages, but whether or not I load the package and regardless of the position within the code, the issue remains.

An idea anyone?

BTW: I'm using the versions hyperref.sty 2012/11/06 v6.83m Hypertext links for LaTeX and footmisc.sty 2011/06/06 v5.5b a miscellany of footnote facilities.

If I use \usepackage{hyperref} after \usepackage[bottom, hang]{footmisc}, I don't get that warning. — , Sep 20 '15 at 09:51
@Harish: Do you get the warning without adding hyperref? Because I just tried it again fearing I made this post for nothing - but still the same behaviour. Could it be that any other configuration is wrong? — Wrstkpp, Sep 20 '15 at 10:00
Without hyperref, no warning! You can try updating or deleting the aux file. — , Sep 20 '15 at 10:03
Did you compile more than once without changinf the document? Normally this messages disappear then. — Ulrike Fischer, Sep 20 '15 at 12:29
In biblatex, you can add the option hyperref=false (default is auto). But I'd just load hyperref, and probably load it with the option hyperfootnotes=false. My guess, however, is that your Thesis.cls is doing something it shouldn't, like load hyperref at an ill-advised time. — jon, Sep 20 '15 at 15:59
Neither compiling the docuement repeatedly as propsed by @UlrikeFischer nor adding hyperref=false or \usepackage[hyperfootnotes=false]{hyperref} as proposed by @jon had any effect. Is there any way I can look into the Thesis.cls file? I searched for it but couldn't locate it on my PC ... — Wrstkpp, Sep 20 '15 at 16:39
There is definitely an answer, where hyperref is loaded before footmisc for whatever reason. See the latest discussion here (https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/203439/footnotes-misbehaving-in-report-go-to-front-page-but-behave-correctly-in-other-r/516359#516359). — Ross Moore, Nov 15 '19 at 21:42

Mensch · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-05T00:23:12.813

The problem with your used document class MastersDoctoralThesis is that it defined already the call of hyperref. If you add \usepackage[hyperfootnotes=false]{hyperref} you get an option class clash error for package hyperref.

Just use \PassOptionsToPackage{hyperfootnotes=false}{hyperref} in the line before \documentclass (see line 11 of MWE). With this command you can advice LaTeX to add the given option hyperfootnotes=false to package hyperref when it is called.

See the corrected MWE (I added the missing packages you left out):

\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@book{SomeSource,
  author = {The Author},
  year   = {2015},
  title  = {The Title},
}
\end{filecontents*}


\PassOptionsToPackage{hyperfootnotes=false}{hyperref}
\documentclass[%
  english,
  12pt, 
  oneside
]{MastersDoctoralThesis}

%\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}

\usepackage[%
  backend=biber, 
  autocite=footnote, 
  citestyle=authoryear-icomp, 
  bibstyle=authoryear
]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\usepackage[bottom, hang]{footmisc}
%\usepackage[hyperfootnotes=false]{hyperref}


\begin{document}
Some Text.\autocite[][123]{SomeSource}{}

\printbibliography[]
\end{document}

To test just comment out line 11 and delete the % in line 30: your warning returns ...

In the manual of package footmisc on page 7 you can read:

hyperref The hyperref package has ambitions to make hyperlinks from footnote marks to the corresponding footnote body; naturally this causes grief to footmisc, and unfortunately no remedy is currently known. If you use foot- misc, suppress hyperref's hyper-footnotes, by loading it as: \usepackage[hyperfootnotes=false,...]{hyperref} Further work on the interaction between the two packages is proposed, but not yet scheduled.

Out of interest, does hypersetup in the preamble work? Too lazy to check right now. https://github.com/VelNZ/mastersdoctoralthesislatex/pull/3 — Johannes_B, Nov 02 '15 at 20:44

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