Using a legacy ~/.lyx can cause LyX to crash upon generating a PDF
(pdflatex) file. If a dvi file has been exported previously LyX will
not update the .tex file, and will continue to use the old .tex for
generating the .pdf file until another dvi file is generated.
Bug exists in lyx1.4.4svn and 1.5.0svn
To reproduce:
1) set ~/.lyxrc/preferences to be the single line:
\format "pdflatex" "pdflatex" "pdflatex" "" "" "" ""
2) Start LyX
3) Start a new file
4) View (or export) PDF (pdflatex)
LyX will then crash.
Workaround:
remove
\format "pdflatex" "pdflatex" "pdflatex" "" "" "" ""
line from ~/.lyx/preferences
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John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia
