Very strange. I moved to a different Windows machine, totally reinstalled elpa/melpa, and the tmp.org file that emailed the list still failed. I even copied tmp.org out of my email to be sure we're looking at the same thing.

Could it be something like you're running Linux and I'm running Windows, or like I'm running TexLive and you're running MikTex? I've attached the output of M-x report-emacs-bug so you can see my whole setup.

I've also attached a different oddly crashing org file, and the latex error buffer I get after typing C-c C-e l o

Scott

On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 12:26 PM, Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> wrote:

Hello,

Scott Otterson <scotto@sharpleaf.org> writes:

> Latex export sometimes fails when I put a link in a headline Usually,
> links in headlines work fine but below is an example that doesn't (error
> message in emacs buffer attached); If I remove the link, the export is
> successful.
>
> -- tmp.org -----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> * Some section [[
> http://orgmode.org/manual/Column-groups.html#Column-groups][A random link]]
>
> - Item A
> - Item B
> - Item C

FWIW I cannot reproduce it.

Regards,

--
Nicolas Goaziou