On 8/16/19 6:01 AM, Stephan Witt wrote: > Am 15.08.2019 um 23:00 schrieb Matthias Görlach > <matthias.goerl...@t-online.de>: >> Hi, >> after running and using Lyx for maybe 10 years, I finally tried to upgrade >> from v 2.2.4 to 2.3.2 and 2.3.3. >> >> This resulted in unusability or continuously repeated error messages >> relating to "missing document classes", something about "missing library" >> and finally to "LyX will only have minimal functionality because no text >> classes have been found. You can either try to configure LyX normally, try >> to reconfigure without checking your LaTeX installation, or continue." >> >> I tried a lot - to no avail - incl newsgroups, Wiki etc etc >> Reconfigure didnt do a thing - neither a complete new install of the recent >> MacTEX suite, reinstall of Lyx etc etc. Other TEX distribs (e.g. mac >> texmaker) worked flawlessly. >> My System MacOS X, 10.12.6 Sierra incl latest patches on a MacBook Pro >> (MacBookPro9,2). >> >> ONLY completely removing any traces of Lyx and reinstalling Lyx 2.2.4 solved >> the problem - its running fine. >> >> Accd to the Lyx web site, the latest release of Lyx (2.3.3) should be >> running fine on my system - so what is the issue??? >> >> Any hints/help available?? > Hi Matthias, > > as others said already - it should work. > > What can be done to diagnose the problem? I would need to know what the LyX > configure run did. > > There is a folder in your user directory named ~/Library/Application > Support/LyX-2.3. This is the location to look for the file configure.log. > Please send it to the users list or in a private mail to me.
I could be wrong, of course, but it smells like a permissions problem. We've seen this kind of thing in other cases, where configure.py can't write to the relevant folder. If not, the log may not exist. Riki
