No export menus LyX 2.1.3 on Ubuntu 15.04 Beta 2

[Blaine Elswood]

I have recently updated my Ubuntu system to 15.04 and it upgraded my LyX
version to 2.1.3. However, the export to menu is now faded and there are
no menu items to update or view pdflatex.

I use LyX everyday to write a novel and desperately need to export to,
save, update, and view pdflatex files. These functions worked fine in LyX
before the upgrade to version 2.1.3. I have tried to reinstall both LyX and
TexLive packages to no avail.

Any suggestions or help would be much appreciated! (I consider LyX as
indispensable to my work product.)

Thank you in advance.

Re: No export menus LyX 2.1.3 on Ubuntu 15.04 Beta 2

[Scott Kostyshak]

Hi Blaine,

This certainly sounds frustrating. Thanks for reporting this to us and
for the nice comments about how useful LyX is to you. Please
exit LyX, then run

mv ~/.lyx ~/Desktop/DOTlyx_backup

Then start LyX again.

Does it work now? If so, can you please *not* delete DOTlyx_backup? We
might like to take a look at it to see what caused this to break.

Below I give some unsolicited advice. Feel free to ignore it.

On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 04:23:32PM -0600, Blaine Elswood wrote:
 I have recently updated my Ubuntu system to 15.04 and it upgraded my LyX
 version to 2.1.3. However, the export to menu is now faded and there are
 no menu items to update or view pdflatex.
 
 I use LyX everyday to write a novel and desperately need to export to,

You should always be careful when updating. I am not saying that LyX is
not responsible. I believe that LyX is at fault here and I think there
is a bug in LyX that caused this to happen. But you should be prepared
for things to break when you upgrade. Always have a backup plan. And do
not upgrade before the final release of Ubuntu 15.04 (later this month).
In fact, I would suggest not upgrading until a few months *after* the
final release of Ubuntu. Actually, if you are desperate to have a stable
system and are not willing to put up with things breaking, only upgrade
to LTS versions. My last bit of advice is to not upgrade, and to do a
clean install. If you have an install script that installs all the
software you need this makes it easy.

Again, I think this is a LyX bug. But it can be tricky to make things
upgrade without problems. This has to do with backwards compatibility of
preferences and settings and other things.

 save, update, and view pdflatex files. These functions worked fine in LyX
 before the upgrade to version 2.1.3. I have tried to reinstall both LyX and
 TexLive packages to no avail.
 
 Any suggestions or help would be much appreciated! (I consider LyX as
 indispensable to my work product.)
 
 Thank you in advance.

I hope we get the issue resolved soon!

For what it's worth, I've used 15.04 since the early alpha days and do
not have a problem with LyX. But I am using the development version of
LyX and compiling myself so we have different setups.

Scott

Re: No export menus LyX 2.1.3 on Ubuntu 15.04 Beta 2

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 6:53 PM, Scott Kostyshak skost...@lyx.org wrote:
 Hi Blaine,

Note that this message has been cross-posted here:
http://latex-community.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=19t=26194p=89418

Scott

Re: No export menus LyX 2.1.3 on Ubuntu 15.04 Beta 2

[Liviu Andronic]

On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 12:23 AM, Blaine Elswood
blaine.elsw...@gmail.com wrote:
 I have recently updated my Ubuntu system to 15.04 and it upgraded my LyX
 version to 2.1.3. However, the export to menu is now faded and there are
 no menu items to update or view pdflatex.

 I use LyX everyday to write a novel and desperately need to export to, save,
 update, and view pdflatex files. These functions worked fine in LyX before
 the upgrade to version 2.1.3. I have tried to reinstall both LyX and TexLive
 packages to no avail.


Even without export to menus, you should be able to:
- preview (using the toolbar button)
- save the PDF from the preview
- save the lyx file (ctrl+s)

Liviu


 Any suggestions or help would be much appreciated! (I consider LyX as
 indispensable to my work product.)

 Thank you in advance.



-- 
Do you think you know what math is?
http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/ian-stewart-2013-08-02
Or what it means to be intelligent?
http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/john-duncan-2013-08-30
Think again:
http://www.ideasroadshow.com/library

No export menus LyX 2.1.3 on Ubuntu 15.04 Beta 2

[Blaine Elswood]

I have recently updated my Ubuntu system to 15.04 and it upgraded my LyX
version to 2.1.3. However, the export to menu is now faded and there are
no menu items to update or view pdflatex.

I use LyX everyday to write a novel and desperately need to export to,
save, update, and view pdflatex files. These functions worked fine in LyX
before the upgrade to version 2.1.3. I have tried to reinstall both LyX and
TexLive packages to no avail.

Any suggestions or help would be much appreciated! (I consider LyX as
indispensable to my work product.)

Thank you in advance.

Re: No export menus LyX 2.1.3 on Ubuntu 15.04 Beta 2

[Scott Kostyshak]

Hi Blaine,

This certainly sounds frustrating. Thanks for reporting this to us and
for the nice comments about how useful LyX is to you. Please
exit LyX, then run

mv ~/.lyx ~/Desktop/DOTlyx_backup

Then start LyX again.

Does it work now? If so, can you please *not* delete DOTlyx_backup? We
might like to take a look at it to see what caused this to break.

Below I give some unsolicited advice. Feel free to ignore it.

On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 04:23:32PM -0600, Blaine Elswood wrote:
 I have recently updated my Ubuntu system to 15.04 and it upgraded my LyX
 version to 2.1.3. However, the export to menu is now faded and there are
 no menu items to update or view pdflatex.
 
 I use LyX everyday to write a novel and desperately need to export to,

You should always be careful when updating. I am not saying that LyX is
not responsible. I believe that LyX is at fault here and I think there
is a bug in LyX that caused this to happen. But you should be prepared
for things to break when you upgrade. Always have a backup plan. And do
not upgrade before the final release of Ubuntu 15.04 (later this month).
In fact, I would suggest not upgrading until a few months *after* the
final release of Ubuntu. Actually, if you are desperate to have a stable
system and are not willing to put up with things breaking, only upgrade
to LTS versions. My last bit of advice is to not upgrade, and to do a
clean install. If you have an install script that installs all the
software you need this makes it easy.

Again, I think this is a LyX bug. But it can be tricky to make things
upgrade without problems. This has to do with backwards compatibility of
preferences and settings and other things.

 save, update, and view pdflatex files. These functions worked fine in LyX
 before the upgrade to version 2.1.3. I have tried to reinstall both LyX and
 TexLive packages to no avail.
 
 Any suggestions or help would be much appreciated! (I consider LyX as
 indispensable to my work product.)
 
 Thank you in advance.

I hope we get the issue resolved soon!

For what it's worth, I've used 15.04 since the early alpha days and do
not have a problem with LyX. But I am using the development version of
LyX and compiling myself so we have different setups.

Scott

Re: No export menus LyX 2.1.3 on Ubuntu 15.04 Beta 2

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 6:53 PM, Scott Kostyshak skost...@lyx.org wrote:
 Hi Blaine,

Note that this message has been cross-posted here:
http://latex-community.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=19t=26194p=89418

Scott

Re: No export menus LyX 2.1.3 on Ubuntu 15.04 Beta 2

[Liviu Andronic]

On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 12:23 AM, Blaine Elswood
blaine.elsw...@gmail.com wrote:
 I have recently updated my Ubuntu system to 15.04 and it upgraded my LyX
 version to 2.1.3. However, the export to menu is now faded and there are
 no menu items to update or view pdflatex.

 I use LyX everyday to write a novel and desperately need to export to, save,
 update, and view pdflatex files. These functions worked fine in LyX before
 the upgrade to version 2.1.3. I have tried to reinstall both LyX and TexLive
 packages to no avail.


Even without export to menus, you should be able to:
- preview (using the toolbar button)
- save the PDF from the preview
- save the lyx file (ctrl+s)

Liviu


 Any suggestions or help would be much appreciated! (I consider LyX as
 indispensable to my work product.)

 Thank you in advance.



-- 
Do you think you know what math is?
http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/ian-stewart-2013-08-02
Or what it means to be intelligent?
http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/john-duncan-2013-08-30
Think again:
http://www.ideasroadshow.com/library

No export menus LyX 2.1.3 on Ubuntu 15.04 Beta 2

[Blaine Elswood]

I have recently updated my Ubuntu system to 15.04 and it upgraded my LyX
version to 2.1.3. However, the "export to" menu is now faded and there are
no menu items to update or view pdflatex.

I use LyX everyday to write a novel and desperately need to export to,
save, update, and view pdflatex files. These functions worked fine in LyX
before the upgrade to version 2.1.3. I have tried to reinstall both LyX and
TexLive packages to no avail.

Any suggestions or help would be much appreciated! (I consider LyX as
indispensable to my work product.)

Thank you in advance.

Re: No export menus LyX 2.1.3 on Ubuntu 15.04 Beta 2

[Scott Kostyshak]

Hi Blaine,

This certainly sounds frustrating. Thanks for reporting this to us and
for the nice comments about how useful LyX is to you. Please
exit LyX, then run

mv ~/.lyx ~/Desktop/DOTlyx_backup

Then start LyX again.

Does it work now? If so, can you please *not* delete DOTlyx_backup? We
might like to take a look at it to see what caused this to break.

Below I give some unsolicited advice. Feel free to ignore it.

On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 04:23:32PM -0600, Blaine Elswood wrote:
> I have recently updated my Ubuntu system to 15.04 and it upgraded my LyX
> version to 2.1.3. However, the "export to" menu is now faded and there are
> no menu items to update or view pdflatex.
> 
> I use LyX everyday to write a novel and desperately need to export to,

You should always be careful when updating. I am not saying that LyX is
not responsible. I believe that LyX is at fault here and I think there
is a bug in LyX that caused this to happen. But you should be prepared
for things to break when you upgrade. Always have a backup plan. And do
not upgrade before the final release of Ubuntu 15.04 (later this month).
In fact, I would suggest not upgrading until a few months *after* the
final release of Ubuntu. Actually, if you are "desperate" to have a stable
system and are not willing to put up with things breaking, only upgrade
to LTS versions. My last bit of advice is to not upgrade, and to do a
clean install. If you have an install script that installs all the
software you need this makes it easy.

Again, I think this is a LyX bug. But it can be tricky to make things
upgrade without problems. This has to do with backwards compatibility of
preferences and settings and other things.

> save, update, and view pdflatex files. These functions worked fine in LyX
> before the upgrade to version 2.1.3. I have tried to reinstall both LyX and
> TexLive packages to no avail.
> 
> Any suggestions or help would be much appreciated! (I consider LyX as
> indispensable to my work product.)
> 
> Thank you in advance.

I hope we get the issue resolved soon!

For what it's worth, I've used 15.04 since the early alpha days and do
not have a problem with LyX. But I am using the development version of
LyX and compiling myself so we have different setups.

Scott

Re: No export menus LyX 2.1.3 on Ubuntu 15.04 Beta 2

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 6:53 PM, Scott Kostyshak  wrote:
> Hi Blaine,

Note that this message has been cross-posted here:
http://latex-community.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=19=26194=89418

Scott

Re: No export menus LyX 2.1.3 on Ubuntu 15.04 Beta 2

[Liviu Andronic]

On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 12:23 AM, Blaine Elswood
 wrote:
> I have recently updated my Ubuntu system to 15.04 and it upgraded my LyX
> version to 2.1.3. However, the "export to" menu is now faded and there are
> no menu items to update or view pdflatex.
>
> I use LyX everyday to write a novel and desperately need to export to, save,
> update, and view pdflatex files. These functions worked fine in LyX before
> the upgrade to version 2.1.3. I have tried to reinstall both LyX and TexLive
> packages to no avail.
>

Even without "export to" menus, you should be able to:
- preview (using the toolbar button)
- save the PDF from the preview
- save the lyx file (ctrl+s)

Liviu


> Any suggestions or help would be much appreciated! (I consider LyX as
> indispensable to my work product.)
>
> Thank you in advance.



-- 
Do you think you know what math is?
http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/ian-stewart-2013-08-02
Or what it means to be intelligent?
http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/john-duncan-2013-08-30
Think again:
http://www.ideasroadshow.com/library