Am 16.08.2019 um 17:04 schrieb Richard Kimberly Heck <rikih...@lyx.org>: > > 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.
That would surprise me. On a Unix system and a Mac one should be able to write to the directories below the home directory. LyX runs with user privileges on a Mac all the time - permission problems shouldn’t exist. Stephan
