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Originally Posted by emath

thanks for the update, buy yet i get this errors :

[LaTeX ERROR: Convert failed]

and in the error log file :

This is dvips(k) 5.95a Copyright 2005 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com), referer: http://www.emath.co.il/forums/%D7%A9...%95%D7%9F-803/
/usr/bin/dvips: ! DVI file can't be opened., referer: http://www.emath.co.il/forums/%D7%A9...%95%D7%9F-803/
convert: unable to open image `143ebf4431f6923c64587a2965b56602_1355335161.ps': No such file or directory., referer: http://www.emath.co.il/forums/%D7%A9...%95%D7%9F-803/
convert: missing an image filename

all paths are double checked .

Looks like latex isn't generating the dvi file, but it's not raising any error at that stage so the error appears in a later phase (dvips and convert). That's strange since the latex compilation phase didn't have any change in this last update. I assume it was working for you earlier, which makes it even more strange.

To troubleshot this, let's try to reproduce manually all the commands that the mod issues.

Please, do something like this:

1. Log in ssh to your server
2. cd to the vlatex/temp directory
3. Make sure that the directory is almost empty (there should be only a index.htm file; if some temporary file wasn't properly deleted it should be safe to delete it now).
4. Create a test.tex file with the following contents (for instance, do it with nano test.tex)

\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amssymb}

\let\dst=\displaystyle
\newcommand{\dd}{\mathrm{d}}
\newcommand{\ee}{\mathrm{e}}
\newcommand{\eee}[1]{\mathrm{e}^{#1}}\pagestyle{empty}
\newlength{\formuladepth}
\newsavebox{\formulabox}
\begin{lrbox}{\formulabox}
$E = m c^2$
\end{lrbox}
\settodepth{\formuladepth}{\usebox{\formulabox}}
\newwrite\opdepth
\immediate\openout\opdepth=\jobname.depth
\immediate\write\opdepth{\the\formuladepth}
\closeout\opdepth
\begin{document}
\usebox{\formulabox}
\end{document}

5. Compile the test file with

latex --interaction=nonstopmode test.tex

6. Please, report back tell me any error that appears after doing that. Report back also the list of files in the directory after that operation (that is, copy into the forum the result of "ls -l" after running step 5).

Feel free to send me the results via PM if you don't want to post that information to the wild