On 11.02.20 11:04, Kornel Benko wrote: > Am Tue, 11 Feb 2020 10:47:45 +0100 > schrieb Martin Weise <m...@rtinweise.de>: > >> On 11.02.20 01:49, Scott Kostyshak wrote: >>> On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 05:38:08PM -0500, Paul A. Rubin wrote: >>>> On 2/10/20 4:03 PM, Martin Weise wrote: >>>>> On 10.02.20 21:52, Scott Kostyshak wrote: >>>>>> On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 09:10:51PM +0100, Martin Weise wrote: >>>>>>> On 10.02.20 17:34, Kornel Benko wrote: >>>>>>>> Am Mon, 10 Feb 2020 16:54:27 +0100 >>>>>>>> schrieb Martin Weise <m...@rtinweise.de>: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> I'm wondering whether LyX successfully compiles the PDF file in the >>>>>>>>>> temp directory but then fails to copy or move it to the target >>>>>>>>>> directory. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Paul >>>>>>>>> No, Document -> View (pdflatex) produces nothing either. Nor does the >>>>>>>>> LuaTeX way. LyX leaves no pdf file in the temp dir. It just leaves >>>>>>>>> .aux, >>>>>>>>> .dvi,. log, .tex and .dep-pdf files. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Martin >>>>>>>> That (.dvi) is the clue probably. Select different output in >>>>>>>> Document->Settings...->Formats->Default output format: -> PDF >>>>>>>> (pdflatex) >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Kornel >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> No, I'm afraid that's not it. pdflatex keeps throwing the assertion >>>>>>> error message, when run through LyX, regardless of what I choose as the >>>>>>> default output format. >>>>>> Still I think Kornel picked up on an important clue: we need to figure >>>>>> out why there's a .dvi file in the temporary directory. If you exit LyX >>>>>> and start LyX again (which should use a fresh temp dir), and compile a >>>>>> simple .lyx file, can you confirm that there's a .dvi in the temporary >>>>>> directory? >>>>>> >>>>>> Scott >>>>>> >>>>> Positive. There's a .dvi file in the (new) temporary directory after I >>>>> choose File->Export->PDF (pdflatex). >>>>> >>>> Do you have an entry for "LaTeX (pdflatex) -> PDF (pdflatex)" in Tools > >>>> Preferences... > File Handling > Converters and, if so, what do the >>>> "Converter:" and "Extra flag:" boxes say? >>> In addition to Paul's question, can you send us your preferences file? >>> It is a text file and you can find its location by going to Help > About >>> and looking in the "User directory" path that is listed there. >>> >>> Best, >>> >>> Scott >>> >> My lyx user dir is ".lyx". But there is no preferences file. >> >> I just noticed another strange phenomenon. When I try to include an >> image in my .lyx document, I just get a LaTeX error ("Cannot determine >> size of graphic in..." when exporting to pdflatex. This is new as well. >> The issues might be related. >> >> Martin >> > Yes, it looks related. Apparently the 'pdflatex' called from lyx does not > create > the required pdf file to be used to display the image. > Maybe the environment used by lyx is different from the one if you compile > manually. > > 1.) Could you start lyx from the terminal? > 2.) does the '.lyx' directory contain *.lst files (11 files) and configure.log > 3.) Are the dates of these files newer compared to the install date of lyx? > 4.) Does removing .lyx dir and restarting lyx create this dir again? > > Kornel > > 1. Yes.
2. Here's a list of the files in the .lyx dir: -rw-rw-r-- 1 martin martin 4061 Feb 11 10:33 bibFiles.lst drwxrwxr-x 2 martin martin 4096 Feb 11 10:33 bind -rw-rw-r-- 1 martin martin 23214 Feb 11 10:33 bstFiles.lst drwx------ 2 martin martin 4096 Feb 11 10:39 cache drwxrwxr-x 2 martin martin 4096 Feb 11 10:33 clipart -rw-rw-r-- 1 martin martin 31483 Feb 11 10:33 clsFiles.lst -rw-rw-r-- 1 martin martin 66314 Feb 11 10:33 configure.log drwxrwxr-x 2 martin martin 4096 Feb 11 10:33 doc drwxrwxr-x 2 martin martin 4096 Feb 11 10:33 examples drwxrwxr-x 2 martin martin 4096 Feb 11 10:33 images drwxrwxr-x 2 martin martin 4096 Feb 11 10:33 kbd drwxrwxr-x 2 martin martin 4096 Feb 11 10:33 layouts -rw-rw-r-- 1 martin martin 0 Feb 11 10:44 .lyx_configure_lock -rw-rw-r-- 1 martin martin 16117 Feb 11 10:33 lyxmodules.lst -rw-rw-r-- 1 martin martin 25959 Feb 11 10:33 lyxrc.defaults -rw-rw-r-- 1 martin martin 1784 Feb 11 10:33 packages.lst drwxrwxr-x 2 martin martin 4096 Feb 11 10:33 scripts -rw-rw-r-- 1 martin martin 387 Feb 11 11:14 session -rw-rw-r-- 1 martin martin 310031 Feb 11 10:33 styFiles.lst drwxrwxr-x 2 martin martin 4096 Feb 11 10:33 templates -rw-rw-r-- 1 martin martin 9013 Feb 11 10:33 textclass.lst drwxrwxr-x 2 martin martin 4096 Feb 11 10:33 ui (Note that I reinstalled lyx at 10:30 today and deleted the .lyx directory before I did so) 3. As you can see, some of them are more recent, like the session file. 4. Yes. Martin -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users