Public bug reported:
If I have a malformed document like:
\documentclass{amsart}
\begin{document}
This is a test document with an image.
\includegraphics[alt={a cute kitten},height=4in]{kitty.jpg}
\end{NOTdocument}
save as bad.tex if I compile it with either of the following options:
latex -interaction=nonstopmode bad.tex
latex -interaction=batchmode bad.tex
then I expect the compilation NOT to stop and prompt me when it
encounters the fatal error trying to compile this malformed document.
Indeed on an ArchLinux box running a slightly newer release of TeXlive,
this is exactly what happens.
However, on Ubuntu 24.04.1 this is NOT what happens, instead I get prompted for
how to deal with the error, like:
! LaTeX Error: \begin{document} ended by \end{NOTdocument}.
See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type H <return> for immediate help.
...
l.17 \end{NOTdocument}
furthermore, when running with the batchmode option:
latex -interaction=batchmode bad.tex
output is not suppressed as it should be (batchmode is supposed to be
less verbose than normal latex operation).
it seems like latex and pdflatex are simply just ignoring the
-interaction=... option's value.
I think I can work around this by redirecting stdin from /dev/null, but
it's still incorrect behavior.
I'll go ahead and attach an example TeX file, but I think the bug should
be reproducible with any TeX file that doesn't compile without errors.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04
Package: texlive-latex-base 2023.20240207-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.8.0-48.48~22.04.1-generic 6.8.12
Uname: Linux 6.8.0-48-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.28.1-0ubuntu3.1
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CloudArchitecture: x86_64
CloudBuildName: server
CloudID: lxd
CloudName: lxd
CloudPlatform: lxd
CloudSerial: 20231026
CloudSubPlatform: LXD socket API v. 1.0 (/dev/lxd/sock)
Date: Fri Dec 6 23:20:16 2024
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
LANG=C.UTF-8
PATH=(custom, no user)
SHELL=/bin/bash
TERM=screen-256color
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
SourcePackage: texlive-base
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to noble on 2024-11-03 (34 days ago)
mtime.conffile..etc.init.d.apport: 2024-07-22T14:59:07
** Affects: texlive-base (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug cloud-image noble
** Attachment added: "bad.tex"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2091192/+attachment/5842618/+files/bad.tex
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latex, pdflatex, ... commands seem to ignore "-interaction" option
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