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Non 0 exit code after progress reaches 100%

It is almost November 2015 and when I click in "Download as a PDF" on the following article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessel_function, I got "Status: Rendering process died with non zero code: 1". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 148.225.71.160 (talk) 19:45, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

It would be nice if someone would create a response to this problem, like the one I see when my browser fails, "Well this is embarrassing . . . ," because it is. I've been ur for 24 hours trying to do something I've done frequently, but now cannot do to save my life. Say what? How dumb is this? Very! I'm sure I won't get a response, so I take it, it doesn't matter what I say here. Dissatisfied user, Kkhemet (talk) 18:26, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

Well, just to make this section as complete as the Wikipedia itself (!) : This bug is still present today (Aug 2015). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vbbhasti (talk • contribs) 18:04, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

I am trying to create a copy of this book (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book:Machine_Learning_-_The_Complete_Guide). I tried 3 times but the result is the same. After the progress reaches almost 100% the process fails with a non zero exit code.

May I know whether I can do something? Thanks. Sarmadys (talk) 20:07, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

I have been trying to download a book that I compiled and every time I try to download, when it reaches 100%, this pops- up "Generation of document file has failed. STATUS: Rendering the process died with non zero code: 1". I have tried this over a few times and the results are still the same. I hope this problem can be solved in the near future. 119.94.5.46 (talk) 12:31, 17 December 2014 (UTC) Maue Zamora

I am having the same error, progress reaches almost 100% then fails with: "Rendering failed \ Generation of the document file has failed. \ Status: Rendering process died with non zero code: 1". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.0.63.254 (talk) 03:58, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

There are more of us experiencing the same issue is there a size limit if so please let us know. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rjdrescher (talk • contribs) 20:30, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

Same problem: Rendering failed Generation of the document file has failed. Status: Rendering process died with non zero code: 1 Return to Book:Machine Learning – The Complete Guide — Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.83.184.121 (talk) 17:48, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

I have the problem with the code "Rendering process died with non zero code: 1"
The link of the book is "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Michaelt1964/B%C3%BCcher/P%C3%A4pste"
It is a more complex book with 20 chapters divided into 3 main sections. The error code appears after completion massage "100%". Thanks for response.

Kind regards Michaelt1964 (talk) 11:21, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

I am having the same problem with "Rendering process died with non zero code: 1" after completion of 100% of rendering of a book to pdf. the book has about 40 articles/wikipedia pages and i made a table of contents with about 6 chapter headings. Some of the chapters have tables in them, (e.g. wikipedia articles in English on "Plant", "Green_algae", and "Bryophyte"). I've tried changing paper size (A4/letter), changing table of contents settings (auto, on, off), and changing columns (1, 2) but alway get same failure to render to pdf with above message. Thank you for any assistance. Here is the book saved on my wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SinkingCreek/Books/A_Survey_of_Plant_Diversity best wishes, Tim. Jan 16, 2015 "SinkingCreek" — Preceding unsigned comment added by SinkingCreek (talk • contribs) 00:02, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

HOW TO FIX ??? Same rendering error - Rendering process died with non zero code: 1. Most likely a heap size issue or generation issue on incompatible content. Why can't we get the detail errors listed as an option instead of the return code?

If this is a free service, why can't we get error feedback in the browser so we can edit or split the book to resolve the issue?

I don't think this is because your files are too big (although I suppose it could be), because this exact same thing is happening to mine, too, and it's just 14 articles, several of which aren't even that long. I just took each article found at https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/E-government and re-compiled it into a collection in the order of the book table of contents listed there. I wish some people would fix this issue as it seems to stretch at least as far back as 2014 October, or at least that's the timestamp for the first bug report shown here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SarahTehCat (talk • contribs) 00:31, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

I'm having the same problem in April 2015. I'm not sure these Help pages are being monitored by anyone who can fix this problem. Pulamusic (talk) 13:54, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

This problem is persisting through late April 2015. Hopefully it'll get fixed, but looking at the history here, I doubt it. Harnessedsea (harnessedsea) 19 April 2015 — Preceding undated comment added 15:40, 18 April 2015 (UTC) I am getting the same error for almost third of the Wikipedia books I tried to download (computer science books) and the ones I tried to create (complexity problems and unsolved problems in computer science). Most of the times it happens both at size A4 and Letter. Sometimes it fails for one size but succeeds for the other. I prefer letter paper size (Canada) but sometimes I only was able to generate A4 and most times neither. These are the Wikipedia books listed under category computer science and also those under computational problems. This bug is marked as low. It should be raised to high. This is Apr 27 2015. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.245.234.120 (talk) 17:43, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

It is June 16, 2015, and the problem continues (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Folder1/Books/John_Barrymore). I attempt to save as PDF and get this error message:
→ Rendering failed.
→ Generation of the document file has failed.
→ Status: Rendering process died with non zero code: 1.
Well, yeah, I noticed. It's a simple book: 36 pages. Have tried adding/deleting articles, saving the book with a new name. The rendering process continues dying. Umpteen different "help" documents on Wikipedia about creating, saving, printing books; no answers in any of them. Have looked for answers on non-Wikipedia sites, without success. Does anyone at Wikipedia even care about this bug? It's like talking to air… Username: folder1 / Real name: Peter F 22:16, 16 June 2015 (UTC)

It's my opinion that Wikipedia ceased to be a vibrant community of responsive editors years ago, when the tide turned towards Deletionist trolls, and every article had to be defended against ad hoc standards of notability. Since then, the enormous body of knowledge we created in the early years has been degraded, becoming less and less usable. That's why I stopped editing. Ok, climbing down off my soap box. Yes, I'm having the same problem generating a book. Nathan McKnight -- Aelffin (talk) 20:39, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

I am having a similar problem and can't seem to find a solution to my problem anywhere, which is, attempting to download book as a PDF, during rendering it stops at progress: 36.67% status: creating attribution page (wiki page: enwiki:[Parsoid]) and it freezes here. I try refreshing the page as is suggested and it only reloads to exactly the same page in the same spot. I am not able to progress any further. I tried the back button numerous times and each time the rendering stops/freezes in the exact same place every time. I would really like to download my book could anyone please help me with this problem??? CuriouslySeeking (talk) 16:38, 30 June 2015 (UTC)

I have a temporal, but unsatisfying solution: Save your book and try edit the pages with page creator. Just delete some of the pages, each for each (be sure you saved it before) and try to render it. After you delete the page which produces the error (? such like "messiah" in my case) you're able to render and download it - without this page. Hope it helps. Lugsciath~enwiki (talk) 11:00, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

Same error, "Status: Rendering process died with non zero code: 1," continues (ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book:Algorithms ). I have tried to render the book a month ago, but the problem is on going. The progress has stopped at the PDF compiling stage. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.67.246.163 (talk) 13:31, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Possible cause

November 25 2015 - I think I might have accidentally discovered the problem. I was creating a pdf on early civilizations and got the same error message as everyone else. After trying a few dozen times, I decided to just download each page as a single pdf and merge them later. Every page worked.

Except one: Babylon.

When I tried to download that page I received this message: "! Package polyglossia Error: The current roman font does not contain the Syriac"

I removed Babylon from my book...and it worked perfectly.

Could THAT be the problem?

Justin

This piece of wikitext is causing it: {{lang-syc|ܒܒܠ}} (lang-syc of course indicates Syriac characters, as per the error message). I copied Babylon to a test page and the pdf failed with the same message. Then I clipped the offending code and the pdf worked just fine. So it looks like you are on to something. Cool! and Thank you!! All we need now is a coding expert willing to work for free.... — Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 22:22, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

Yeah I think that's it! I tried to download a book about the world's largest companies and I failed. I then removed all of the Chinese Companies and it succeeded!- York12321 (Talk) 11:15, 75 November 2015 (UTC)

You are right as it seems problem is actually linked to some specific code in some specific page. I experienced same issue with French Wiki page on Plasence town when compiling a book on Estremadura. I am not experienced enough to make some accurate testing but there is no such alphabet issue there. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A01:CB00:67F:8600:B422:DE64:CE64:3F75 (talk) 18:58, 14 February 2016 (UTC)

That seems to be it. I was having the same problem--about 22 articles, 300 pages. I tried it one-column and two-column. It failed both times, though I was able to download it in text format. Two of my articles dealt with Chinese biographies--one of Chiang Kai-shek and the other of Mao Zedong. I removed the two, reran the program, and it compiled properly. Thanks greatly to those above for suggesting the correct solution.

Another similar problem I recently found was down to broken HTML code in the page, where it contained <em>something<em>, creating two open em containers, instead of <em>something</em> which closes off correctly. The best thing is to copy the page to your sandbox bit by bit, clicking the "Download to PDF" link each time to see where it crashes. Then take a close look at that piece of wikitext. — Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 19:30, 14 February 2016 (UTC)

February, 19th 2016: I've had the same problems and it worked when I selected 2 columns instead of one. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.96.45.110 (talk) 12:38, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit also fails due to this code File:LavabitCourtDocuments.pdf I am trying to figure out how to fix this but it seems like good HTML code. You will have to look at the source of wikipedia's article on Lavabit to see what I mean. Any thoughts? Josiah.k.powell (talk) 12:31, 24 August 2016 (UTC)

Is it Time to create a code bounty using Bountysource? Where does Wikimedia take direct funding for fixing specific issues?Unfortunately, phabricator wikimedia's bug reporting tool is NOT supported on bountysource as yet Long story short, if we want something, we'll have to pay developers/coders to fix this issue.DennisDaniels (talk) 14:03, 27 August 2016 (UTC)

I was told about Wikipedia Books years ago. I've been trying it for the last couple of days, and it still can't do the only thing it's supposed to do. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.49.36.243 (talk) 23:42, 5 November 2016 (UTC)