Hi Angus,
Here is another clue. I ran the lyx executable with strace under Cygwin.
The output was very interesting and seems to point to an infinite
loop in startup:
[...]
39 433123 [main] lyx 3884 mount_info::conv_to_posix_path:
conv_to_posix_path (/usr/local/, keep-rel, add-slash)
25 433148 [main] lyx 3884 normalize_win32_path: \usr\local\ =
normalize_win32_path (/usr/local/)
22 433170 [main] lyx 3884 mount_info::conv_to_posix_path: /usr/local/ =
conv_to_posix_path (/usr/local/)
35 433205 [main] lyx 3884 mount_info::conv_to_posix_path:
conv_to_posix_path (/usr/local/, keep-rel, add-slash)
24 433229 [main] lyx 3884 normalize_win32_path: \usr\local\ =
normalize_win32_path (/usr/local/)
23 433252 [main] lyx 3884 mount_info::conv_to_posix_path: /usr/local/ =
conv_to_posix_path (/usr/local/)
36 433288 [main] lyx 3884 mount_info::conv_to_posix_path:
conv_to_posix_path (/usr/local/, keep-rel, add-slash)
25 433313 [main] lyx 3884 normalize_win32_path: \usr\local\ =
normalize_win32_path (/usr/local/)
22 433335 [main] lyx 3884 mount_info::conv_to_posix_path: /usr/local/ =
conv_to_posix_path (/usr/local/)
35 433370 [main] lyx 3884 mount_info::conv_to_posix_path:
conv_to_posix_path (/usr/local/, keep-rel, add-slash)
25 433395 [main] lyx 3884 normalize_win32_path: \usr\local\ =
normalize_win32_path (/usr/local/)
22 433417 [main] lyx 3884 mount_info::conv_to_posix_path: /usr/local/ =
conv_to_posix_path (/usr/local/)
The above is repeated forever till (I presume) stack space is exhasuted
and LyX does not start up.
Does this give you any ideas of where to look?
---Kayvan
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