Ugh, an update to Arch's LyX package was just pushed that fixes this bug. Apologies for the noise. However, I'm happy to troubleshoot the mailing list problems if necessary.
Cheers. On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 07:42:22AM +1000, Pete Crite wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been trying to subscribe to the mailing list. I've sent four emails > in total to lyx-users-subscr...@lists.lyx.org over the last four days, > but only received one "confirmation" reply. I've checked my spam box, > but nothing is there. > > I replied to the single "confirmation" email five times in total as > well, but received no reply. I also tried emailing > lyx-users-h...@lists.lyx.org , but got no reply. Hopefully this email > gets through to the list, but please cc: me directly. > > ========== > > LyX's pipes recently stopped working. I used to be able to open a file > in an existing LyX instance with > > echo "LYXCMD:lyx-script:file-open:filename.lyx" > ~/.lyx/lyxpipe.in > > However, this no longer works. The command stalls, and the file is not > opened. I confirmed the absence of pipes when LyX was closed, and the > presence when it restarted. > > JabRef is also failing to push references to LyX, although it doesn't > report any errors. > > I attempted starting LyX with `lyx -dbg 8192 filename.lyx`, with the > following output. > > $ lyx -dbg 8192 filename.lyx > 16:41:06 Setting debug level to 8192 > Debugging `undo' (Undo/Redo mechanism) > QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 0 and type 'Read', disabling... > Undo.cpp (516): +++++++Creating new group 1 > Undo.cpp (531): -------End of group 1 > Undo.cpp (516): +++++++Creating new group 2 > Undo.cpp (531): -------End of group 2 > Undo.cpp (516): +++++++Creating new group 3 > Undo.cpp (531): -------End of group 3 > Undo.cpp (516): +++++++Creating new group 4 > Undo.cpp (531): -------End of group 4 > Undo.cpp (516): +++++++Creating new group 5 > LyXComm: Could not close pipe /home/pete/.lyx/lyxpipe.in > Bad file descriptor > > The final two lines appear when I quit, although the file *is* deleted. > How can I get LyX's pipes working again? > > Arch Linux: up-to-date. > LyX 2.1.4 from official Arch packages. > > Cheers, > Pete.
