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I wrote a large part of my thesis with MiKTeX 2.9 using siunitx for all units in the text. Now I did an update of MiKTeX 2.9 and suddenly no document is created any more although no error appears. After a while, I found the MWE:

\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage{siunitx}
\begin{document}
This is my text
\end{document}

Within the MWE-folder, only a .log file is created, but no other files like .aux, etc. As I already mentioned, no errors or warnings are shown. Does anyone have any idea what's going wrong here?

Joseph Wright
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    We are going to need to see a log listing, or at the very least what \listfiles gives. – Joseph Wright Dec 05 '11 at 19:32
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    @Anja: Do you use the editor TeXnicCenter. Maybe you need additional packages are loaded by siunitx. This is a bug of TeXnicCenter. Try an other editor like TeXStudio. – Marco Daniel Dec 05 '11 at 19:33
  • @Anja: Which editor do you use? – Rainer Dec 05 '11 at 19:45
  • Indeed I am using TeXnicCenter. I just found on the MiKTeX website that this is a known bug, as Marco said. The solution the website suggested worked indeed - I simply changed the MiKTeX option for "install missing packages on the fly" to "yes" rather than "ask me first". Now the MWE is working. Thanks to all of you for your hints! – Anja Dec 06 '11 at 11:21
  • For future reference: It would have been an obvious choice to include the actual message "GUI framework cannot be initialized" as part of your post in the first place. This comes from examining the .log file. – Werner Dec 06 '11 at 16:56

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Once again as an answer - the bug with TeXnicCenter is described on the MiKTeX website along with the solution: http://miktex.org/2.9/issues

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  • But you should be aware, that all on-the-fly packages are installed into the user folder, so that in the future you will have to update always twice: the admin packages and the user packages. Maybe this question is also relevant for you: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/29616/what-is-the-preferable-setup-for-miktex-to-keep-all-packages-up-to-date-easily – matth Dec 06 '11 at 11:32
  • @matth: Thanks for this note. Indeed I wasn't aware of this, thinking that changing the settings in the Admin mode would mean that on-the-fly packages are installed for all users. – Anja Dec 06 '11 at 13:30