Working with multibib, Bibtex started failing me after a recent reinstallation of texlive on xubuntu. On
bibtex <project-path>/src.aux
I got:
bibtex: Not writing to &amp;lt;project-path&amp;gt;/src.blg (openout_any = p). I couldn't open file name `&amp;lt;project-path&amp;gt;/src.blg'
To get rid of the error, open texmf.cnf, which resides in /usr/share/texlive/texmf/web2c through
sudo gedit /usr/share/texlive/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
Then find the entry
openout_any = p
p is the paranoid setting. I changed it to r and it now works again (chapeau to dmj).
[update 31 Jan 2013] If sudo is not an option and thus texmf.cnf can’t be changed, see Sini’s helpful comment below. [/update]
If you want to learn about multiple bibliographies using multibib, there is a very good tutorial by peisistratos. Unfortunately it is in German, but I’m sure there are English ones out there, too.
Sini Ruohomaa
If sudo is not an option, you can also just ‘export TMPDIR=.’ before running bibtex. (I had this problem in a bibtex2html script.)
http://www.lri.fr/~filliatr/bibtex2html/
DD
if the trick doesn’t work, try “locate”-ing the *.cnf file in your system, as you might have two (this was my case), one in the
/usr/share/texlive/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf directory
but also another one in
/usr/local/texlive/”DistYear”/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
changed them both and now it works!
ThanX!!!
Denis Golomazov
Thanks for the tip, it worked.
Jan
Thanks everyone, especially Sini and DD for the input!