On 11/07/2013 02:44 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
On Wednesday 06 November 2013 16:54:13 David L. Johnson wrote:
> On 11/06/2013 03:47 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
> > On Wednesday 06 November 2013 09:26:57 Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> > > On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 3:20 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann
> > >
> > > <engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
> > > > I am sorry to bother you with this off topic issue, but it hinders
> > > > me
> > > >
> > > > to use Lyx at the moment.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Any suggestions/proposals are very welcome and appreciated
> > >
> > > I'm surprised this isn't causing more problems besides LyX and cd
> > >
> > > w<expansion>. This could be very bad.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I don't know enough to have any advice on solving the main problem
> > >
> > > you're experiencing. If you are really only concerned about LyX (you
> > >
> > > should be concerned about more, IMO), you could try running LyX as
> > >
> > > root to see if it has the same problem.
> >
> > Good idea, Scott. Under root it runs without problems. Would it help
> > if I create a new user and try it there until I have solved the
> > (non-Lyx) issue under my current Home (or Homes)?
>
> Ah. So either you have a permissions problem with some file LyX needs
> (this should not happen, but...), or there is something in your
> $HOME/.lyx directory that is messing things up. When you run as root,
> it only looks in /root/.lyx, creating what it needs if necessary.
>
> Try this. Rename your $HOME/.lyx directory to something else, then run
> LyX as your usual username. If things work (after a setup timelag),
> then there is just some messed up configuration file.
This is the terminal output after following your suggestion:
wolfgang@wolfgang:~$ Fontconfig warning:
"/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-droid-sans-fonts.conf", line 103: Having
multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-droid-sans-fonts.conf", line
138: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work
as expected
LyX: Erstellen des Verzeichnisses /home/wolfgang/.lyx/
LyX: Konfiguriere das Benutzerverzeichnis neu
Running: python -tt "/usr/share/lyx/configure.py"
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/lyx/configure.py", line 17, in <module>
filemode = 'w')
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/logging/__init__.py", line 1530, in basicConfig
hdlr = FileHandler(filename, mode)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/logging/__init__.py", line 903, in __init__
StreamHandler.__init__(self, self._open())
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/logging/__init__.py", line 926, in _open
stream = open(self.baseFilename, self.mode)
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/wolfgang/configure.log'
support/Systemcall.cpp (273): Systemcall: 'python -tt
"/usr/share/lyx/configure.py"' finished with exit code 1
LyX: Fertig!
LayoutFile.cpp (107): LayoutFileList::Read: unable to find textclass
file `textclass.lst'.
LayoutFile.cpp (164): LayoutFileList::Read: no textclasses found!
ModuleList.cpp (136): unable to find modules file `lyxmodules.lst'.
No modules will be available.
Could not create cache directory `/home/wolfgang/.lyx/cache'.
I waited for about 10 minutes, but lyx was not started. I therefore
rebooted, but the result was again that lyx did not start. Terminal
output similar to the above one:
wolfgang@wolfgang:~$ lyx &
[1] 4419
wolfgang@wolfgang:~$ Fontconfig warning:
"/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-droid-sans-fonts.conf", line 103: Having
multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-droid-sans-fonts.conf", line
138: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work
as expected
LyX: Konfiguriere das Benutzerverzeichnis neu
Running: python -tt "/usr/share/lyx/configure.py"
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/lyx/configure.py", line 17, in <module>
filemode = 'w')
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/logging/__init__.py", line 1530, in basicConfig
hdlr = FileHandler(filename, mode)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/logging/__init__.py", line 903, in __init__
StreamHandler.__init__(self, self._open())
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/logging/__init__.py", line 926, in _open
stream = open(self.baseFilename, self.mode)
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/wolfgang/configure.log'
support/Systemcall.cpp (273): Systemcall: 'python -tt
"/usr/share/lyx/configure.py"' finished with exit code 1
LyX: Fertig!
LayoutFile.cpp (107): LayoutFileList::Read: unable to find textclass
file `textclass.lst'.
LayoutFile.cpp (164): LayoutFileList::Read: no textclasses found!
ModuleList.cpp (136): unable to find modules file `lyxmodules.lst'.
No modules will be available.
Could not create cache directory `/home/wolfgang/.lyx/cache'.
I do not find the configure.log in my home (wanted to check the
permission)
That is a file LyX wants to create, and it is being denied permissions
to do so.
It looks as if you may have some very bad permissions problems in your
configuration. Can you do:
# ls -l /
and post the complete output?
Richard
