Re: runlyx.bat does not start Cygwin LyX
At 15:15 18/02/2003 -0800, you wrote: So what's the difference between lyx.exe and lyxwin32.exe? lyxwin32.exe will do the following to ensure a proper environment: 1) Running all startup scripts, i.e. the system wide /etc/profile all script in /etc/profile.d as well as your personal $HOME/.profile and your $HOME/.bashrc. 2) Executes the file /etc/lyxprofile 3) It starts lyx.exe sending error output into the file /tmp/lyx.out So any command in any of those files will be executed before calling lyx. lyxwin32 does not call tr a standard unix command (translate). It seems that that tr command does not terminate and therefore lyxwin32 can't proceed to start lyx.exe at the end. So who does call that? SO why does it not exit? The only one I could find is the line export HOSTNAME=`hostname | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'` in /etc/profile (that is the default one, hasn't been changed). Curious, there's no such line in my profile (also default). Do you have base-files-1.1-1 installed? That comes with /etc/profile.default that has that line in it, and hence my /etc/profile too But that doesn't seem to cause problems and hang when I open a bash window, start XFree86 and xterm or anything else, just with lyxwin32.exe The only change I did to /etc/lyxprofile is comment out the 'export HOME=...' as I've already set it as my Windows env. variable. Try commenting out the export HOSTNAME line in /etc/profile and see if the problem disappears. That did solve the problem and LyX started successfully. So now we know which 'tr' is hanging, can we find out why is it so? It does not hang when I open just a bash window, and the HOSTNAME var is set correctly. FWIW, I've bumped into situations where something worked ok in DOS but not Cygwin, or vice versa. It turns out that permissions for the same file may be different (or at least appear different) between DOS/Windoze and Cygwin. (This only applies to Win 2K and XP, and maybe NT.) I'm wondering if maybe lyxwin32, running under DOS rather than Cygwin, tries to invoke some other program for which it lacks, or appears to lack, permission. I've tried this with or without CYGWIN=ntsec, no difference. I'm cc'ing this to the cygwin list also, maybe somebody can shed some new light on this.
Re: runlyx.bat does not start Cygwin LyX
[posted and mailed] Turns out tr is not the culprit. See comments interspersed below. Milos Komarcevic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: At 15:15 18/02/2003 -0800, you wrote: So any command in any of those files will be executed before calling lyx. lyxwin32 does not call tr a standard unix command (translate). It seems that that tr command does not terminate and therefore lyxwin32 can't proceed to start lyx.exe at the end. So who does call that? SO why does it not exit? The only one I could find is the line export HOSTNAME=`hostname | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'` in /etc/profile (that is the default one, hasn't been changed). Curious, there's no such line in my profile (also default). Do you have base-files-1.1-1 installed? Yes. That comes with /etc/profile.default that has that line in it, Same here. and hence my /etc/profile too It's in my profile.default, but not in profile itself. Don't know why; I never edited /etc/profile that I can recall, and I'm positive I never played with that line. Something else is exporting the HOSTNAME variable, because it's in my environment when I open a bash shell. But that doesn't seem to cause problems and hang when I open a bash window, start XFree86 and xterm or anything else, just with lyxwin32.exe The only change I did to /etc/lyxprofile is comment out the 'export HOME=...' as I've already set it as my Windows env. variable. Try commenting out the export HOSTNAME line in /etc/profile and see if the problem disappears. That did solve the problem and LyX started successfully. So now we know which 'tr' is hanging, can we find out why is it so? By editing my /etc/profile, I reproduced your problem. It turns out that tr is not hanging; hostname is. To verify this, I changed the line in /etc/profile to HN=`tr BOZO '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'` export MYHOSTNAME=$HN and LyX started fine. Then I replaced that with HN=`hostname` (not even bothering to do anything with the resulting variable HN) and the startup process hung (XFree86 running but the LyX window not yet opened). When I killed the hostname process, LyX finished loading. I have no idea why hostname is hanging in this context, when it runs fine in a bash shell. It does not hang when I open just a bash window, and the HOSTNAME var is set correctly. Same here. FWIW, I've bumped into situations where something worked ok in DOS but not Cygwin, or vice versa. It turns out that permissions for the same file may be different (or at least appear different) between DOS/Windoze and Cygwin. (This only applies to Win 2K and XP, and maybe NT.) I'm wondering if maybe lyxwin32, running under DOS rather than Cygwin, tries to invoke some other program for which it lacks, or appears to lack, permission. I've tried this with or without CYGWIN=ntsec, no difference. I'm cc'ing this to the cygwin list also, maybe somebody can shed some new light on this. -- Paul * Paul A. Rubin Phone:(517) 432-3509 Department of Management Fax: (517) 432- The Eli Broad Graduate School of ManagementE-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michigan State University http://www.msu.edu/~rubin/ East Lansing, MI 48824-1122 (USA) * Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whenever you say something to them, they translate it into their own language, and at once it is something entirely different.J. W. v. GOETHE
Re: runlyx.bat does not start Cygwin LyX
At 15:15 18/02/2003 -0800, you wrote: So what's the difference between lyx.exe and lyxwin32.exe? lyxwin32.exe will do the following to ensure a proper environment: 1) Running all startup scripts, i.e. the system wide /etc/profile all script in /etc/profile.d as well as your personal $HOME/.profile and your $HOME/.bashrc. 2) Executes the file /etc/lyxprofile 3) It starts lyx.exe sending error output into the file /tmp/lyx.out So any command in any of those files will be executed before calling lyx. lyxwin32 does not call tr a standard unix command (translate). It seems that that tr command does not terminate and therefore lyxwin32 can't proceed to start lyx.exe at the end. So who does call that? SO why does it not exit? The only one I could find is the line export HOSTNAME=`hostname | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'` in /etc/profile (that is the default one, hasn't been changed). Curious, there's no such line in my profile (also default). Do you have base-files-1.1-1 installed? That comes with /etc/profile.default that has that line in it, and hence my /etc/profile too But that doesn't seem to cause problems and hang when I open a bash window, start XFree86 and xterm or anything else, just with lyxwin32.exe The only change I did to /etc/lyxprofile is comment out the 'export HOME=...' as I've already set it as my Windows env. variable. Try commenting out the export HOSTNAME line in /etc/profile and see if the problem disappears. That did solve the problem and LyX started successfully. So now we know which 'tr' is hanging, can we find out why is it so? It does not hang when I open just a bash window, and the HOSTNAME var is set correctly. FWIW, I've bumped into situations where something worked ok in DOS but not Cygwin, or vice versa. It turns out that permissions for the same file may be different (or at least appear different) between DOS/Windoze and Cygwin. (This only applies to Win 2K and XP, and maybe NT.) I'm wondering if maybe lyxwin32, running under DOS rather than Cygwin, tries to invoke some other program for which it lacks, or appears to lack, permission. I've tried this with or without CYGWIN=ntsec, no difference. I'm cc'ing this to the cygwin list also, maybe somebody can shed some new light on this.
Re: runlyx.bat does not start Cygwin LyX
[posted and mailed] Turns out tr is not the culprit. See comments interspersed below. Milos Komarcevic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: At 15:15 18/02/2003 -0800, you wrote: So any command in any of those files will be executed before calling lyx. lyxwin32 does not call tr a standard unix command (translate). It seems that that tr command does not terminate and therefore lyxwin32 can't proceed to start lyx.exe at the end. So who does call that? SO why does it not exit? The only one I could find is the line export HOSTNAME=`hostname | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'` in /etc/profile (that is the default one, hasn't been changed). Curious, there's no such line in my profile (also default). Do you have base-files-1.1-1 installed? Yes. That comes with /etc/profile.default that has that line in it, Same here. and hence my /etc/profile too It's in my profile.default, but not in profile itself. Don't know why; I never edited /etc/profile that I can recall, and I'm positive I never played with that line. Something else is exporting the HOSTNAME variable, because it's in my environment when I open a bash shell. But that doesn't seem to cause problems and hang when I open a bash window, start XFree86 and xterm or anything else, just with lyxwin32.exe The only change I did to /etc/lyxprofile is comment out the 'export HOME=...' as I've already set it as my Windows env. variable. Try commenting out the export HOSTNAME line in /etc/profile and see if the problem disappears. That did solve the problem and LyX started successfully. So now we know which 'tr' is hanging, can we find out why is it so? By editing my /etc/profile, I reproduced your problem. It turns out that tr is not hanging; hostname is. To verify this, I changed the line in /etc/profile to HN=`tr BOZO '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'` export MYHOSTNAME=$HN and LyX started fine. Then I replaced that with HN=`hostname` (not even bothering to do anything with the resulting variable HN) and the startup process hung (XFree86 running but the LyX window not yet opened). When I killed the hostname process, LyX finished loading. I have no idea why hostname is hanging in this context, when it runs fine in a bash shell. It does not hang when I open just a bash window, and the HOSTNAME var is set correctly. Same here. FWIW, I've bumped into situations where something worked ok in DOS but not Cygwin, or vice versa. It turns out that permissions for the same file may be different (or at least appear different) between DOS/Windoze and Cygwin. (This only applies to Win 2K and XP, and maybe NT.) I'm wondering if maybe lyxwin32, running under DOS rather than Cygwin, tries to invoke some other program for which it lacks, or appears to lack, permission. I've tried this with or without CYGWIN=ntsec, no difference. I'm cc'ing this to the cygwin list also, maybe somebody can shed some new light on this. -- Paul * Paul A. Rubin Phone:(517) 432-3509 Department of Management Fax: (517) 432- The Eli Broad Graduate School of ManagementE-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michigan State University http://www.msu.edu/~rubin/ East Lansing, MI 48824-1122 (USA) * Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whenever you say something to them, they translate it into their own language, and at once it is something entirely different.J. W. v. GOETHE
Re: runlyx.bat does not start Cygwin LyX
At 15:15 18/02/2003 -0800, you wrote: >>So what's the difference between lyx.exe and lyxwin32.exe? >>lyxwin32.exe will do the following to ensure a proper environment: >> >> 1) Running all startup scripts, i.e. the system wide /etc/profile >> all script in /etc/profile.d as well as your personal >> $HOME/.profile and your $HOME/.bashrc. >> 2) Executes the file /etc/lyxprofile >> 3) It starts lyx.exe sending error output into the file /tmp/lyx.out >> >>So any command in any of those files will be executed before calling >>lyx. lyxwin32 does not call tr a standard unix command (translate). It >>seems that that tr command does not terminate and therefore lyxwin32 >>can't proceed to start lyx.exe at the end. So who does call that? SO >>why does it not exit? > > The only one I could find is the line > > export HOSTNAME=`hostname | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'` > > in /etc/profile (that is the default one, hasn't been changed). Curious, there's no such line in my profile (also default). Do you have base-files-1.1-1 installed? That comes with /etc/profile.default that has that line in it, and hence my /etc/profile too > But that doesn't seem to cause problems and hang when I open a > bash window, start XFree86 and xterm or anything else, > just with lyxwin32.exe > The only change I did to /etc/lyxprofile is comment out the 'export > HOME=...' as I've already set it as my Windows env. variable. Try commenting out the export HOSTNAME line in /etc/profile and see if the problem disappears. That did solve the problem and LyX started successfully. So now we know which 'tr' is hanging, can we find out why is it so? It does not hang when I open just a bash window, and the HOSTNAME var is set correctly. FWIW, I've bumped into situations where something worked ok in DOS but not Cygwin, or vice versa. It turns out that permissions for the same file may be different (or at least appear different) between DOS/Windoze and Cygwin. (This only applies to Win 2K and XP, and maybe NT.) I'm wondering if maybe lyxwin32, running under DOS rather than Cygwin, tries to invoke some other program for which it lacks, or appears to lack, permission. I've tried this with or without CYGWIN=ntsec, no difference. I'm cc'ing this to the cygwin list also, maybe somebody can shed some new light on this.
Re: runlyx.bat does not start Cygwin LyX
[posted and mailed] Turns out tr is not the culprit. See comments interspersed below. Milos Komarcevic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > At 15:15 18/02/2003 -0800, you wrote: >> >>So any command in any of those files will be executed before >> >>calling lyx. lyxwin32 does not call tr a standard unix command >> >>(translate). It seems that that tr command does not terminate and >> >>therefore lyxwin32 can't proceed to start lyx.exe at the end. So >> >>who does call that? SO why does it not exit? >> > >> > The only one I could find is the line >> > >> > export HOSTNAME=`hostname | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'` >> > >> > in /etc/profile (that is the default one, hasn't been changed). >> >>Curious, there's no such line in my profile (also default). > > Do you have base-files-1.1-1 installed? Yes. > That comes with /etc/profile.default that has that line in it, Same here. > and hence my /etc/profile too It's in my profile.default, but not in profile itself. Don't know why; I never edited /etc/profile that I can recall, and I'm positive I never played with that line. Something else is exporting the HOSTNAME variable, because it's in my environment when I open a bash shell. >> > But that doesn't seem to cause problems and hang when I open a >> > bash window, start XFree86 and xterm or anything else, >> > just with lyxwin32.exe >> > The only change I did to /etc/lyxprofile is comment out the 'export >> > HOME=...' as I've already set it as my Windows env. variable. >> >>Try commenting out the export HOSTNAME line in /etc/profile and see if >>the problem disappears. > > That did solve the problem and LyX started successfully. > So now we know which 'tr' is hanging, can we find out why is it so? By editing my /etc/profile, I reproduced your problem. It turns out that tr is not hanging; hostname is. To verify this, I changed the line in /etc/profile to HN="`tr BOZO '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`" export MYHOSTNAME=$HN and LyX started fine. Then I replaced that with HN="`hostname`" (not even bothering to do anything with the resulting variable HN) and the startup process hung (XFree86 running but the LyX window not yet opened). When I killed the hostname process, LyX finished loading. I have no idea why hostname is hanging in this context, when it runs fine in a bash shell. > It does not hang when I open just a bash window, and the HOSTNAME var > is set correctly. Same here. >>FWIW, I've bumped into situations where something worked ok in DOS but >>not Cygwin, or vice versa. It turns out that permissions for the same >>file may be different (or at least appear different) between >>DOS/Windoze and Cygwin. (This only applies to Win 2K and XP, and >>maybe NT.) I'm wondering if maybe lyxwin32, running under DOS rather >>than Cygwin, tries to invoke some other program for which it lacks, or >>appears to lack, permission. > > I've tried this with or without CYGWIN=ntsec, no difference. > > I'm cc'ing this to the cygwin list also, maybe somebody can shed > some new light on this. -- Paul * Paul A. Rubin Phone:(517) 432-3509 Department of Management Fax: (517) 432- The Eli Broad Graduate School of ManagementE-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michigan State University http://www.msu.edu/~rubin/ East Lansing, MI 48824-1122 (USA) * Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whenever you say something to them, they translate it into their own language, and at once it is something entirely different.J. W. v. GOETHE
Re: runlyx.bat does not start Cygwin LyX
Claus, At 11:41 18/02/2003 +0100, you wrote: I have tried launching with wrapper lyxwin32.exe using Cygwin/XFree86, and still I have the same problem: nothing happens, but if I start with 'lyx' from an xterm window everything is fine. So what's the difference between lyx.exe and lyxwin32.exe? lyxwin32.exe will do the following to ensure a proper environment: 1) Running all startup scripts, i.e. the system wide /etc/profile all script in /etc/profile.d as well as your personal $HOME/.profile and your $HOME/.bashrc. 2) Executes the file /etc/lyxprofile 3) It starts lyx.exe sending error output into the file /tmp/lyx.out So any command in any of those files will be executed before calling lyx. lyxwin32 does not call tr a standard unix command (translate). It seems that that tr command does not terminate and therefore lyxwin32 can't proceed to start lyx.exe at the end. So who does call that? SO why does it not exit? The only one I could find is the line export HOSTNAME=`hostname | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'` in /etc/profile (that is the default one, hasn't been changed). But that doesn't seem to cause problems and hang when I open a bash window, start XFree86 and xterm or anything else, just with lyxwin32.exe The only change I did to /etc/lyxprofile is comment out the 'export HOME=...' as I've already set it as my Windows env. variable. There seem to be two processes started when I type 'start .\lyxwin32.exe' from the DOS command window: tr.exe and lyxwin32.exe (both in d:\cygwin\bin) So why do you use a DOS window? Try my startlyx.bat file to start Lyx using lyxwin32.exe! There will be used the run command! Because 'start .\lyxwin32.exe' is in rynlyx.bat and that batch file is run from the DOS/Windows environment, no? I am just trying to do whatever runlyx.bat is doing step-by-step. startlyx.bat fails in exactly the same way (tr.exe + lyxwin32.exe hang) In both of these cases, no /tmp/lyx.out is being created at all. You can start the X server first. Then open a bash window and in that window enter lyxwin32 Watch the screen for output. After that look do cat /tmp/lyx.out to have a look into the error output written by Lyx itself. This works and starts LyX ok! ??? The output is: 'Command is: |lyx /dev/null 2/tmp/lyx.out|' and /tmp/lyx.out is created and empty. So I don't really understand what is going on??? For what it's worth, I'm running Win2k+SP3 and have CYGWIN env. set to 'binmode ntsec tty nosmbntsec' Is there more switches on lyxwin32.exe to get more debugging info? Regards, Milos
Re: runlyx.bat does not start Cygwin LyX
Milos Komarcevic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: So any command in any of those files will be executed before calling lyx. lyxwin32 does not call tr a standard unix command (translate). It seems that that tr command does not terminate and therefore lyxwin32 can't proceed to start lyx.exe at the end. So who does call that? SO why does it not exit? The only one I could find is the line export HOSTNAME=`hostname | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'` in /etc/profile (that is the default one, hasn't been changed). Curious, there's no such line in my profile (also default). But that doesn't seem to cause problems and hang when I open a bash window, start XFree86 and xterm or anything else, just with lyxwin32.exe The only change I did to /etc/lyxprofile is comment out the 'export HOME=...' as I've already set it as my Windows env. variable. Try commenting out the export HOSTNAME line in /etc/profile and see if the problem disappears. FWIW, I've bumped into situations where something worked ok in DOS but not Cygwin, or vice versa. It turns out that permissions for the same file may be different (or at least appear different) between DOS/Windoze and Cygwin. (This only applies to Win 2K and XP, and maybe NT.) I'm wondering if maybe lyxwin32, running under DOS rather than Cygwin, tries to invoke some other program for which it lacks, or appears to lack, permission. -- Paul * Paul A. Rubin Phone:(517) 432-3509 Department of Management Fax: (517) 432- The Eli Broad Graduate School of ManagementE-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michigan State University http://www.msu.edu/~rubin/ East Lansing, MI 48824-1122 (USA) * Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whenever you say something to them, they translate it into their own language, and at once it is something entirely different.J. W. v. GOETHE
Re: runlyx.bat does not start Cygwin LyX
Claus, At 11:41 18/02/2003 +0100, you wrote: I have tried launching with wrapper lyxwin32.exe using Cygwin/XFree86, and still I have the same problem: nothing happens, but if I start with 'lyx' from an xterm window everything is fine. So what's the difference between lyx.exe and lyxwin32.exe? lyxwin32.exe will do the following to ensure a proper environment: 1) Running all startup scripts, i.e. the system wide /etc/profile all script in /etc/profile.d as well as your personal $HOME/.profile and your $HOME/.bashrc. 2) Executes the file /etc/lyxprofile 3) It starts lyx.exe sending error output into the file /tmp/lyx.out So any command in any of those files will be executed before calling lyx. lyxwin32 does not call tr a standard unix command (translate). It seems that that tr command does not terminate and therefore lyxwin32 can't proceed to start lyx.exe at the end. So who does call that? SO why does it not exit? The only one I could find is the line export HOSTNAME=`hostname | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'` in /etc/profile (that is the default one, hasn't been changed). But that doesn't seem to cause problems and hang when I open a bash window, start XFree86 and xterm or anything else, just with lyxwin32.exe The only change I did to /etc/lyxprofile is comment out the 'export HOME=...' as I've already set it as my Windows env. variable. There seem to be two processes started when I type 'start .\lyxwin32.exe' from the DOS command window: tr.exe and lyxwin32.exe (both in d:\cygwin\bin) So why do you use a DOS window? Try my startlyx.bat file to start Lyx using lyxwin32.exe! There will be used the run command! Because 'start .\lyxwin32.exe' is in rynlyx.bat and that batch file is run from the DOS/Windows environment, no? I am just trying to do whatever runlyx.bat is doing step-by-step. startlyx.bat fails in exactly the same way (tr.exe + lyxwin32.exe hang) In both of these cases, no /tmp/lyx.out is being created at all. You can start the X server first. Then open a bash window and in that window enter lyxwin32 Watch the screen for output. After that look do cat /tmp/lyx.out to have a look into the error output written by Lyx itself. This works and starts LyX ok! ??? The output is: 'Command is: |lyx /dev/null 2/tmp/lyx.out|' and /tmp/lyx.out is created and empty. So I don't really understand what is going on??? For what it's worth, I'm running Win2k+SP3 and have CYGWIN env. set to 'binmode ntsec tty nosmbntsec' Is there more switches on lyxwin32.exe to get more debugging info? Regards, Milos
Re: runlyx.bat does not start Cygwin LyX
Milos Komarcevic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: So any command in any of those files will be executed before calling lyx. lyxwin32 does not call tr a standard unix command (translate). It seems that that tr command does not terminate and therefore lyxwin32 can't proceed to start lyx.exe at the end. So who does call that? SO why does it not exit? The only one I could find is the line export HOSTNAME=`hostname | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'` in /etc/profile (that is the default one, hasn't been changed). Curious, there's no such line in my profile (also default). But that doesn't seem to cause problems and hang when I open a bash window, start XFree86 and xterm or anything else, just with lyxwin32.exe The only change I did to /etc/lyxprofile is comment out the 'export HOME=...' as I've already set it as my Windows env. variable. Try commenting out the export HOSTNAME line in /etc/profile and see if the problem disappears. FWIW, I've bumped into situations where something worked ok in DOS but not Cygwin, or vice versa. It turns out that permissions for the same file may be different (or at least appear different) between DOS/Windoze and Cygwin. (This only applies to Win 2K and XP, and maybe NT.) I'm wondering if maybe lyxwin32, running under DOS rather than Cygwin, tries to invoke some other program for which it lacks, or appears to lack, permission. -- Paul * Paul A. Rubin Phone:(517) 432-3509 Department of Management Fax: (517) 432- The Eli Broad Graduate School of ManagementE-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michigan State University http://www.msu.edu/~rubin/ East Lansing, MI 48824-1122 (USA) * Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whenever you say something to them, they translate it into their own language, and at once it is something entirely different.J. W. v. GOETHE
Re: runlyx.bat does not start Cygwin LyX
Claus, At 11:41 18/02/2003 +0100, you wrote: > I have tried launching with wrapper lyxwin32.exe using Cygwin/XFree86, > and still I have the same problem: nothing happens, but if I start with > 'lyx' from an xterm window everything is fine. So what's the difference between lyx.exe and lyxwin32.exe? lyxwin32.exe will do the following to ensure a proper environment: 1) Running all startup scripts, i.e. the system wide /etc/profile all script in /etc/profile.d as well as your personal $HOME/.profile and your $HOME/.bashrc. 2) Executes the file /etc/lyxprofile 3) It starts lyx.exe sending error output into the file /tmp/lyx.out So any command in any of those files will be executed before calling lyx. lyxwin32 does not call tr a standard unix command (translate). It seems that that tr command does not terminate and therefore lyxwin32 can't proceed to start lyx.exe at the end. So who does call that? SO why does it not exit? The only one I could find is the line export HOSTNAME=`hostname | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'` in /etc/profile (that is the default one, hasn't been changed). But that doesn't seem to cause problems and hang when I open a bash window, start XFree86 and xterm or anything else, just with lyxwin32.exe The only change I did to /etc/lyxprofile is comment out the 'export HOME=...' as I've already set it as my Windows env. variable. > There seem to be two processes started when I type 'start .\lyxwin32.exe' > from the DOS command window: tr.exe and lyxwin32.exe (both in d:\cygwin\bin) So why do you use a DOS window? Try my startlyx.bat file to start Lyx using lyxwin32.exe! There will be used the run command! Because 'start .\lyxwin32.exe' is in rynlyx.bat and that batch file is run from the DOS/Windows environment, no? I am just trying to do whatever runlyx.bat is doing step-by-step. startlyx.bat fails in exactly the same way (tr.exe + lyxwin32.exe hang) In both of these cases, no /tmp/lyx.out is being created at all. You can start the X server first. Then open a bash window and in that window enter lyxwin32 Watch the screen for output. After that look do cat /tmp/lyx.out to have a look into the error output written by Lyx itself. This works and starts LyX ok! ??? The output is: 'Command is: |lyx /tmp/lyx.out|' and /tmp/lyx.out is created and empty. So I don't really understand what is going on??? For what it's worth, I'm running Win2k+SP3 and have CYGWIN env. set to 'binmode ntsec tty nosmbntsec' Is there more switches on lyxwin32.exe to get more debugging info? Regards, Milos
Re: runlyx.bat does not start Cygwin LyX
Milos Komarcevic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: >>So any command in any of those files will be executed before calling >>lyx. lyxwin32 does not call tr a standard unix command (translate). It >>seems that that tr command does not terminate and therefore lyxwin32 >>can't proceed to start lyx.exe at the end. So who does call that? SO >>why does it not exit? > > The only one I could find is the line > > export HOSTNAME=`hostname | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'` > > in /etc/profile (that is the default one, hasn't been changed). Curious, there's no such line in my profile (also default). > But that doesn't seem to cause problems and hang when I open a > bash window, start XFree86 and xterm or anything else, > just with lyxwin32.exe > The only change I did to /etc/lyxprofile is comment out the 'export > HOME=...' as I've already set it as my Windows env. variable. Try commenting out the export HOSTNAME line in /etc/profile and see if the problem disappears. FWIW, I've bumped into situations where something worked ok in DOS but not Cygwin, or vice versa. It turns out that permissions for the same file may be different (or at least appear different) between DOS/Windoze and Cygwin. (This only applies to Win 2K and XP, and maybe NT.) I'm wondering if maybe lyxwin32, running under DOS rather than Cygwin, tries to invoke some other program for which it lacks, or appears to lack, permission. -- Paul * Paul A. Rubin Phone:(517) 432-3509 Department of Management Fax: (517) 432- The Eli Broad Graduate School of ManagementE-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michigan State University http://www.msu.edu/~rubin/ East Lansing, MI 48824-1122 (USA) * Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whenever you say something to them, they translate it into their own language, and at once it is something entirely different.J. W. v. GOETHE
