Rules / Output

No file main.bbl — Bibliography not built

Biber or BibTeX was never run, so all citations are undefined and the bibliography is empty.

Fix

Build with latexmk, or run biber/bibtex and then LaTeX twice.

Example

Reproduced on TeX Live 2026 by CI · lualatex · corpus/biblatex-rerun-biber

Biber has not been run

Fails: main.tex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{biblatex}
\addbibresource{references.bib}
\begin{document}
Typesetting is a solved problem \autocite{knuth1984}.
\printbibliography
\end{document}
What TeX prints in main.log
No file main.bbl.
Package biblatex Warning: Please (re)run Biber on the file:
(biblatex)                main
(biblatex)                and rerun LaTeX afterwards.