Build passed but no documentation or downloads

[mcraig-ibme]

Details

• Project URL: https://readthedocs.org/projects/oxford-asl/
• Build URL (if applicable):
• Read the Docs username (if applicable):

Expected Result

Documentation and downloads available after build passed

Actual Result

There's no indication of a problem in the build, but no documents are visible. I tried recreating the project under a different name. I have another similar project which is working fine. The only difference I can find between them is that in the working project the 'Overview' page displays 'latest' in the 'Versions' box whereas in the non-working project this box is empty. However the 'latest' version is listed in the 'Versions' page and is active. I've also tried 'wiping' the 'latest' version.

[RichardLitt]

Related to #2356.

[mcraig-ibme]

Worth mentioning that the docs on my working project are updating when I rebuild so it's something specific to my new projects - it looked to me like #2356 was to do with queuing of updates which would presumably affect all projects?

[ShawnDriscoll]

I don't think any PDFs or EPUBs have been generated for any projects since Oct. 9th. Servers need looking at for broken chain. I have not looked to see if HTML is being generated for downloads.

ADDED:
Looks like HTML docs are not being generated either after receiving new files from GitHub.

[pietmolenaar]

I'm seeing the same here in four RTD projects, no PDF's or EPUBs generated since Oct. 9th; Output in log is identical to the latest versions that did build, latex says a pdf was generated, but probably not copied to the right location?
Added: two of the project urls:
https://readthedocs.org/projects/r2-tutorials/
http://manual.cytoscape.org/en/latest/

[sasha-carlos]

The same behaviour with downloads in http://findface.readthedocs.io/en/latest/.

[mcraig-ibme]

My existing projects are still working fine but not new ones. If it helps, I have noticed the 'latest' version is missing from the overview version list in the non-working projects:

Also, in 'Admin->Versions', the 'latest' version is listed as 'Not built':

However it's been built several times:

Could there be some problem with identifying the version to publish?

[bloer]

Same problem in http://bgexplorer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ . New project started today, build passed, but nothing in Downloads and homepage shows autogenerated index file.

[mcraig-ibme]

Here's something weird: I can only build and download these documents when I'm not logged in to RTD!
Of course they don't deploy to the web but you can download HTML/PDF etc.
But if I'm logged in, no downloads are listed.
Not sure if this might be relevant to the problem.

[vegu]

So i ran into the same problem as @mcraig-ibme, with the exact same symptoms, in my case it appears to have been a missing index.md

Adding that file and making sure it exists in mkdocs.yml fixed the issue for me

pages:
  - Home: index.md

Odd that it's not more vocal about this. Anyway, maybe it's the same issue on your end?

[mcraig-ibme]

I think it was! I'm using the conf.py method and RST but my main index file was not named index.rst. So I renamed it to index.rst and changed the master doc in conf.py to:

master_doc = 'index'

Now everything is working and all the symptoms I described above have gone away.

However my old master doc was specified correctly in conf.py so I would have expected it to work. Not clear if this is a bug or not, but it's clearly a nasty gotcha.

Many thanks @vegu