check failure of pslatex by presence of resulting .dvi file rather than exit status, eliminates spurious pslatex errors, RT#12454

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/FS/FS/Misc.pm b/FS/FS/Misc.pm
index 6108f778a..a55f4a912 100644
--- a/FS/FS/Misc.pm
+++ b/FS/FS/Misc.pm
@@ -767,10 +767,13 @@ sub _pslatex {
 
     local($SIG{CHLD}) = sub {};
     run( \@cmd, '>'=>'/dev/null', '2>'=>'/dev/null', timeout($timeout) )
-      or die "pslatex $file.tex failed; see $file.log for details?\n";
+      or warn "bad exit status from pslatex pass $_\n";
 
   }
 
+  return if -e "$file.dvi" && -s "$file.dvi";
+  die "pslatex $file.tex failed; see $file.log for details?\n";
+
 }
 
 =item print ARRAYREF