Re: Issues using lyx

[Joel Kulesza]

On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 2:26 PM, Steve Litt 
wrote:

> Do you have a way to format up a Linux computer to use for LyXing your
> document?


Note that you don't necessarily need to dedicate a computer to this.  You
can try installing virtualization software (e.g.,
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads) and running Linux within that
environment.

- Joel

Re: Issues using lyx

[Steve Litt]

On Sun, 18 Jun 2017 03:58:22 +
Mr William Balthes  wrote:

> I am using lyx to write my thesis and having major problems.
> The program continually crashes and mostly forms an emergency file
> but sometimes not. The document seems to get messed up regardless.

[snip]

> I am using Windows 10 and lyx version 2.1.
> Hoping you can give me some advice I just seem to be redoing stuff
> and it gets better just for the same thing to happen again.

Hi William,

I'm going to give you a suggestion, which if given to me, would cause
me to start a huge flame war. So please be a more accepting person than
I would be if our roles were reversed...

Do you have a way to format up a Linux computer to use for LyXing your
document? I have a feeling that LyXing under Linux would cure your
problem.

The reason I say this is that LyX has lots of problems, but crashiness
isn't one of them, or at least not on Linux. Over the last 20 years
I've used LyX, ever since LyX 1.4, on about 10 computers with about 6
different LyX distros, and except for one or two minor versions over a
decade ago, LyX was never crashy. And if I remember correctly, the
crashiness occurred back when LyX was built upon Xforms (which I
preferred), rather than Qt. To me, your symptom description sounds a
lot more like either underlying OS or hardware than LyX, and if I'm
right, you could format up a Linux box and write your document
uninterrupted.

By the way, I'd recommend you take a System Rescue CD and run all the
hardware tests on your Win10 computer. Be sure to test the RAM and the
disk.

 
SteveT

Steve Litt 
June 2017 featured book: The Key to Everyday Excellence
http://www.troubleshooters.com/key

Re: Issues using lyx

[Andrew Parsloe]

On 19/06/2017 6:36 a.m., Cris Fuhrman wrote:

I use LyX a lot with Windows 10, and have had some spontaneous crashes
that are hard to reproduce in small documents. They have happened when
selecting large parts of a document (the selection scrolling beyond the
current window is expanded super fast downward, across many parts of a
document including figures, appendix, and then... boom!).
Inline image 1

I just tried this in LyX 2.3.3 on one of my big exam files, and it's
still a problem. I tend to NOT use the emergency file, and I've learned
NOT to do big mouse selections (I select only with shift and arrow
keys). This may not be William's problem, but could be related to it.



This sounds like #10324 -- exactly the same error message. It seems to 
be more general than my initial report. I am on Windows 7 (so it's not a 
Windows 10 issue) and could raise the error back to LyX 2.1.5 (comment 9 
of #10324).


Andrew

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Re: Issues using lyx

[Cris Fuhrman]

On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 2:36 PM, Cris Fuhrman  wrote:

> I just tried this in LyX 2.3.3 on one of my big exam files...
>

Correction: I'm  running LyX 2.2.2 on my computer at home where this crash
was.

Re: Issues using lyx

[Cris Fuhrman]

I use LyX a lot with Windows 10, and have had some spontaneous crashes that
are hard to reproduce in small documents. They have happened when selecting
large parts of a document (the selection scrolling beyond the current
window is expanded super fast downward, across many parts of a document
including figures, appendix, and then... boom!).
[image: Inline image 1]

I just tried this in LyX 2.3.3 on one of my big exam files, and it's still
a problem. I tend to NOT use the emergency file, and I've learned NOT to do
big mouse selections (I select only with shift and arrow keys). This may
not be William's problem, but could be related to it.

On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 9:58 AM, David L. Johnson  wrote:

> On 06/17/2017 11:58 PM, Mr William Balthes wrote:
>
> I am using lyx to write my thesis and having major problems.
>
> The program continually crashes and mostly forms an emergency file but
> sometimes not.
>
> The document seems to get messed up regardless.
>
> I have never had any such problems, so let's find out what is going on.
>
>
> The document class is American Mathematical Society (AMS) Article
>
> Which I use all the time.
>
>
> I can send a document sample if this helps
>
> I would guess this is a configuration issue.  Are you new to LyX?  Send me
> a minimal file that shows the problem.  One way to do that is to take the
> file that is causing problems, cut it in half, and see which half continues
> to be a problem.  Continue until you can isolate the problem area (and of
> course remove anything you want to keep private).  Send that to me.
>
> Now, I don't use Windows, and have version 2.2.2 of LyX, but this would be
> a first test to see where the problem is.
>
> --
> David L. Johnson
> Department of Mathematics
> Lehigh University
>
>

Re: Issues using lyx

[David L. Johnson]

On 06/17/2017 11:58 PM, Mr William Balthes wrote:


I am using lyx to write my thesis and having major problems.

The program continually crashes and mostly forms an emergency file but 
sometimes not.


The document seems to get messed up regardless.


I have never had any such problems, so let's find out what is going on.


The document class is American Mathematical Society (AMS) Article


Which I use all the time.



I can send a document sample if this helps

I would guess this is a configuration issue.  Are you new to LyX? Send 
me a minimal file that shows the problem.  One way to do that is to take 
the file that is causing problems, cut it in half, and see which half 
continues to be a problem.  Continue until you can isolate the problem 
area (and of course remove anything you want to keep private).  Send 
that to me.


Now, I don't use Windows, and have version 2.2.2 of LyX, but this would 
be a first test to see where the problem is.


--
David L. Johnson
Department of Mathematics
Lehigh University