The following minimal example doesn't compiles on macOs with pdfTeX 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.21 (TeX Live 2020) and biber 2.14. If I remove the year fields from the bib file, it works. Any ideas, what's wrong here? The same example works on another Mac with previous version of pdflatex and biber (TeX Live 2019) \documentclass{article} \usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex} \addbibresource{lauraPhd2016.bib} \begin{document} I doubt that there is any useful information here~\cite{wikibook}.  All we know is limited, apart from knowing the answer we all know.  Or do we? Wombat and Koala have discovered some interesting things~\cite{wombat2016}.  Some people are too nosy. What can happen to them is described by Laura Lion~\cite[9]{lion2010}.  \printbibliography \end{document}   @article{wombat2016,     author   = {Walther Wombat and Klaus Koala},     title    = {The true meaning of 42},     journal  = {Journal of modern skepticism},     year     = {2016},     keywords = {trusted}, } @book{lion2010,     author       = {Laura Lion and  Gabrielle Giraffe and Carl Capybara},     title        = {The dangers of asking the wrong question},     publisher    = {publishing house},     year         = {2010},     keywords     = {trusted}, } @online{wikibook,     title        = {Generating Bibliographies with biblatex and biber},     organization = {Wikibooks},     url          = {https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Generating_Bibliographies_with_biblatex_and_biber},     keywords     = {untrusted}, }   I ran the following commands: pdflatex document biber document pdflatex document pdflatex document  The log file (document.blg): [0] Config.pm:304&gt; INFO - This is Biber 2.14 [0] Config.pm:307&gt; INFO - Logfile is 'document.blg' [102] biber-darwin:322&gt; INFO - === Di Okt 20, 2020, 10:19:46 [128] Biber.pm:415&gt; INFO - Reading 'document.bcf' [252] Biber.pm:943&gt; INFO - Found 3 citekeys in bib section 0 [269] Biber.pm:4256&gt; INFO - Processing section 0 [270] Utils.pm:75&gt; INFO - Globbing data source 'lauraPhd2016.bib' [270] Utils.pm:91&gt; INFO - Globbed data source 'lauraPhd2016.bib' to lauraPhd2016.bib [283] Biber.pm:4455&gt; INFO - Looking for bibtex format file 'lauraPhd2016.bib' for section 0 [285] bibtex.pm:1653&gt; INFO - LaTeX decoding ... [290] bibtex.pm:1471&gt; INFO - Found BibTeX data source 'lauraPhd2016.bib'
I am on a Mac with MacTex 2020 and ran into a strange problem with Biber. Working on a document all was fine, I did not change the bibliography (says my git) and only fixing typos (not even adding cites) and suddenly latexmk stopped working after a Biber run, while that looked like  INFO - This is Biber 2.14 INFO - Logfile is 'doc.blg' INFO - Reading 'doc.bcf' INFO - Found 31 citekeys in bib section 0 INFO - Processing section 0 INFO - Globbing data source 'literature.bib' INFO - Globbed data source 'literature.bib' to literature.bib INFO - Looking for bibtex format file 'literature.bib' for section 0 INFO - LaTeX decoding ... INFO - Found BibTeX data source 'literature.bib'   so harmless in my view. Then with --debug I additionally get in the end.  INFO - LaTeX decoding ... warning: overriding existing definition of macro "jun" warning: overriding existing definition of macro "jul" warning: overriding existing definition of macro "sep" warning: overriding existing definition of macro "jan" [...] warning: overriding existing definition of macro "nov" INFO - Found BibTeX data source 'literature.bib' Unicode::UCD: failed to find unicore/version in /var/folders/hm/gt63cn0j2r7bwbzw7c1hww1r0000gn/T/par-626572676d616e6e/cache-2f8a664c3c933a44d096bcc8d018a5e92bced897/inc/lib /var/folders/hm/gt63cn0j2r7bwbzw7c1hww1r0000gn/T/par-626572676d616e6e/cache-2f8a664c3c933a44d096bcc8d018a5e92bced897/inc CODE(0x7fd026aeb5a8) CODE(0x7fd026aebb90) at /var/folders/hm/gt63cn0j2r7bwbzw7c1hww1r0000gn/T/par-626572676d616e6e/cache-2f8a664c3c933a44d096bcc8d018a5e92bced897/inc/lib/Biber/Input/file/bibtex.pm line 1011.   It seems unrelated to the library itself since deleting a few entries (going through deleting one half, then the other), the problem persists. It does not happen for an empty literature, but as soon as a first entry is added (just author/journal/title/year/volume/pages - no utf8-only chars) this error message appears.  what does this last error message mean?  How can I solve this?
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