Yes, this may solve some problems but not all. The PATH bug is still there on Yosemite, and I see it can still bite me in LyX after I reconfigured from the terminal. For the time being, the only reliable solution seems to be starting LyX from the terminal. See more info at http://stackoverflow.com/q/26491934/559676 (and the link in the answer). Since this is a general problem on Yosemite, you might find other apps are affected as well (as long as they launch sub processes and call programs that are not in /bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin). The solution of starting apps from the terminal should apply to all of them.
Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie <xieyi...@gmail.com> Web: http://yihui.name On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 4:06 AM, Rainer M Krug <rai...@krugs.de> wrote: > THis seems to be a problem with paths and environmental variables passed > to sub-processes (also mentiond on the R sig mac list): Yosemite seems > to have implemented security mechanisms which do (to me) unknown things > to paths and environmental variables. > > So, in a nutshell: > > 1) If you do a reconfigure in LyX started from the icon / finder / > spotlight, the reconfigure seems not to find the files needed, and does > finish nearly immediately and does not creates an (empty?) configuration > file > > 2) If you start lyx from the terminal > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > /PATH/TO/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/lyx > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > and reconfigure then, it is working. > > Workaround: > Startt from terminal and reconfigure - after this everything seems to be > working > > Solution: > No idea, but I guess an update in LyX > > Hope this helps, > > Rainer > > > Christopher Menzel <chris.men...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Hal Kierstead wrote: >>> I am trying to use LyX 2.1.2 with Yosemite, but review does not work >>> for me. I cannot even preview the help manuals. I can export them >>> to LaTex and then compile them with LaTex. This must be some path >>> problem, but I do not know how to deal with it. Any help would be >>> appreciated. >> >> Couple of very quick ideas: >> >> . Perhaps reconfiguring (Tools -> reconfigure) might help. >> . If you aren't using the latest version of MacTeX >> <http://tug.org/mactex/>, consider upgrading. >> >> -chris >> > > -- > Rainer M. Krug > email: Rainer<at>krugs<dot>de > PGP: 0x0F52F982
