miktex fails to compile...

[drhalftone]

Miktex opens L01.tex in pdfLatex + MakeIndex + Bibtex and then gets caught up in some kind of endless loop. See my console output below.

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.21 (MiKTeX 20.11)
entering extended mode
(L01.tex
LaTeX2e <2020-10-01> patch level 2
L3 programming layer <2020-10-27> xparse <2020-03-03>
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("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex/latex/graphics\trig.sty")
("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex/latex/graphics-cfg\graphics.cfg")
("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex/latex/graphics-def\pdftex.def")))
("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex/latex/pgf/systemlayer\pgfsys.sty"
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("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex/generic/pgf/utilities\pgfrcs.code.tex"
("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex/generic/pgf\pgf.revision.tex")))
("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex/generic/pgf/systemlayer\pgfsys.code.tex"
("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex/generic/pgf/utilities\pgfkeys.code.tex"
("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex/generic/pgf/utilities\pgfkeysfiltered.code.tex"))
("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex/generic/pgf/systemlayer\pgf.cfg")
("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex/generic/pgf/systemlayer\pgfsys-pdftex.def"
("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex/generic/pgf/systemlayer\pgfsys-common-pdf.def")))
("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex/generic/pgf/systemlayer\pgfsyssoftpath.code.tex"
) ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex/generic/pgf/systemlayer\pgfsysprotocol.code.tex
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)
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ode.tex")
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("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex/generic/pgf/math\pgfmathfunctions.comparison.code
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) ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex/generic/pgf/math\pgfmathfunctions.misc.code.tex
")
("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex/generic/pgf/math\pgfmathfunctions.integerarithmet
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("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex/generic/pgf/basiclayer\pgfcorepathusage.code.tex"
) ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex/generic/pgf/basiclayer\pgfcorescopes.code.tex")

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("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex/generic/pgf/basiclayer\pgfcoreshade.code.tex")
("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex/generic/pgf/basiclayer\pgfcoreimage.code.tex"
("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex/generic/pgf/basiclayer\pgfcoreexternal.code.tex")
) ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex/generic/pgf/basiclayer\pgfcorelayers.code.tex")

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ex")
("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex/generic/pgf/basiclayer\pgfcorepatterns.code.tex")
("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex/generic/pgf/basiclayer\pgfcorerdf.code.tex")))
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Package hyperref Message: Stopped early.

) ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex/latex/hyperref\hpdftex.def"
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For additional information on amsmath, use the `?' option.
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Then is just hangs on that last line.

[tfcollins]

Some of the co-located sty files may not be compatible with newer latex versions. I would recommend removing the local sty files and installing the theme directly from github: https://github.com/matze/mtheme

-Travis