Why is 'pdflatex -halt-on-error -interaction=batchmode' failing?

[sineth]

Hi,
I am using Matlab, and Dynare to run a model.
I have the following codes to generate the Latex file. My codes were properly working and I generated the pdf file once. Now I cannot re-generate the same pdf file. I get the warning message ('TeX-File did not compile; you need to compile it manually'
Can someone please identify any issues here? I have updated MiKTeX and checked for updates. No issue is found.
My problem is as I have generated the pdf once, do I need to delete the history files or so. Otherwise how to resolve this iissue.
Thanks
Sineth

write_latex_definitions;
write_latex_parameter_table;
write_latex_original_model;
write_latex_dynamic_model;
write_latex_static_model;
write_latex_steady_state_model;
collect_latex_files;

if system(['pdflatex -halt-on-error -interaction=batchmode ' M_.fname '_TeX_binder.tex'])
warning('TeX-File did not compile; you need to compile it manually')

 

[jedishrfu]

First i would save the relevant pdf files that worked previously for backup, then delete them and start again.

It may be that some step skipped over generating some intermediary data and read in the old data that a later step determined didn't match up hence the error.

Beyond that there's not much we can do here since there's little to go on unless one of us at PF has encountered this error with a similar project and recall how we fixed it.

 

[sineth]

Thanks for the reply @jedishrfu. I have tried after deleting all pdf files generated. But get the same error.

 

[pasmith]

To determine the cause, compile it manually and look at the actual error message(s) generated by pdftex.

 

[sineth]

Thanks

 

[pasmith]

Rather than

if system(['pdflatex -halt-on-error -interaction=batchmode ' M_.fname '_TeX_binder.tex'])
    warning('TeX-File did not compile; you need to compile it manually')

why not try

[status,cmdout] = system(['pdflatex -halt-on-error -interaction=batchmode ' M_.fname '_TeX_binder.tex'])
if status
   disp(cmdout)

and if an error occurs MATLAB will print the actual console output of pdftex, removing the need to rerun it manually in order to diagnose the error.