Try a recent version. 1.0 is out for quite a while now.
You may also run into problems with diskspace, do you have swap ?
Roland
On 16-Feb-99 Jeff Shilt wrote:
> I've installed both the Debian and RedHat packages of 0.12 and they both
> crash when lyx tries to display the splash screen. On initial startup, it
> goes through config ok then the main lyx screen comes up (still ok) but
> when it tries to bring up the box with the logo the whole program just quits.
>
> What are the requirements to run it. I have 8M ram and about 15M free
> left on my hard drive (but I figure the HD space isn't particularly
> important). Is it possible to tell lyx not to show the splash screen -
> maybe then it would continue to run.
>
> The weird thing is that I've had Lyx 0.12 running on my machine before.
>
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Washington University, Saint Louis
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