Hi Blaine, This certainly sounds frustrating. Thanks for reporting this to us and for the nice comments about how useful LyX is to you. Please exit LyX, then run
mv ~/.lyx ~/Desktop/DOTlyx_backup Then start LyX again. Does it work now? If so, can you please *not* delete DOTlyx_backup? We might like to take a look at it to see what caused this to break. Below I give some unsolicited advice. Feel free to ignore it. On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 04:23:32PM -0600, Blaine Elswood wrote: > I have recently updated my Ubuntu system to 15.04 and it upgraded my LyX > version to 2.1.3. However, the "export to" menu is now faded and there are > no menu items to update or view pdflatex. > > I use LyX everyday to write a novel and desperately need to export to, You should always be careful when updating. I am not saying that LyX is not responsible. I believe that LyX is at fault here and I think there is a bug in LyX that caused this to happen. But you should be prepared for things to break when you upgrade. Always have a backup plan. And do not upgrade before the final release of Ubuntu 15.04 (later this month). In fact, I would suggest not upgrading until a few months *after* the final release of Ubuntu. Actually, if you are "desperate" to have a stable system and are not willing to put up with things breaking, only upgrade to LTS versions. My last bit of advice is to not upgrade, and to do a clean install. If you have an install script that installs all the software you need this makes it easy. Again, I think this is a LyX bug. But it can be tricky to make things upgrade without problems. This has to do with backwards compatibility of preferences and settings and other things. > save, update, and view pdflatex files. These functions worked fine in LyX > before the upgrade to version 2.1.3. I have tried to reinstall both LyX and > TexLive packages to no avail. > > Any suggestions or help would be much appreciated! (I consider LyX as > indispensable to my work product.) > > Thank you in advance. I hope we get the issue resolved soon! For what it's worth, I've used 15.04 since the early alpha days and do not have a problem with LyX. But I am using the development version of LyX and compiling myself so we have different setups. Scott
