Robert Badzey wrote:
Hi:
So I've been using LyX for awhile now. Great program - wrote my
dissertation on it in about half the time it would have taken for LatTeX.
So I noticed the new build (1.3.6) for Windows, and figured I'd give it
a shot. I don't know what the problem is, but it's been giving me fits
ever since, with a progressive degrading of performance that's a bit
startling.
First, I couldn't import LaTex files correctly. Always got an error
message. Tried installing tex2lyx -- no dice. I just got a generic
error message, and so was never able to track it down beyond that.
Then, just yesterday, LyX apparently lost the ability to generate
previews - no DVI, nothing. The pull-down menu options which existed
before simply vanished. Only output to PDF. Having removed and
re-installed, now I can't even run it. I get an error message which
tells me that it "wasn't able to find any layout description" and the
program fails to run.
So in the space of three days I've gone from a functional program to one
which simply won't run at all.
Any ideas/suggestions? This is very worrying and not at all explicable.
Rob Badzey
LIFO -- first priority is to figure out why the reinstall won't run.
Any chance that the third-party programs required by LyX were
uninstalled (and not reinstalled), removed from the command path or
otherwise hosed? In particular, you need a working version of sh.exe
(presumably from the MinSys package?) for the configuration script to
work. The "no layout files" error has been known to happen when the
configure script breaks either because the wrong version of sh or the
wrong version of sed (or no version?) is used.
Paul
