The versions of caption and hyperref shipped with texlive 2009 are incompatible. \ProvidesPackage{caption}[2009/10/09 v3.1k Customizing captions (AR)] \ProvidesPackage{hyperref}[2009/12/28 v6.79z Hypertext links for LaTeX] The latest version of caption, v3.1m, does again work with hyperref v6.79z. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Run the following through pdflatex: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{caption} \usepackage{hyperref} \begin{document} \begin{figure} \centering \rule{2cm}{2cm} \caption*{a caption} \end{figure} \end{document} Actual Results: Black box with two lines of caption "Figure 1: *" "a caption" Messages from pdflatex printed to the command line include: Package caption Warning: \caption will not be redefined since it's already (caption) redefined by a document class or package which is (caption) unknown to the caption package. See the caption package documentation for explanation. Expected Results: Black box with one line of caption: "a caption" No warnings printed to pdflatex standard output. Announcement for caption v3.1l: This version includes adaptions to the very recent hyperref and nameref package versions. Furthermore it should work with the combine document class, too. Announcement for caption v3.1m: The usage of the subfig package without the hyperref package was broken in version 3.1l, fixed
caption 3.1m is in texlive 2010, closing
