Re: Troubleshooting BibTeX in LyX

[Cris Fuhrman]

It's working again. I re-installed LyX, but that didn't fix the problem. I
didn't want to re-install MikTeX for obvious reasons (it is working fine in
TeXStudio and it's slow to install).

Googling, I saw someone recommended using biber instead of bibtex in
Preferernces > Output > LaTeX > Bibliography Generation > Processor when
LyX gives "?" in its citations. So I tried that, but it didn't work either.
However, I was at least getting warnings in the LaTeX log that my
references were undefined.

Frustrated, I again tried "Reconfigure" and... surprisingly it started
working. I believe reconfigure re-set the default bibliography generator to
bibtex, as that is what it is now, and it's working. Hope this is helpful
to someone.

On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 5:20 PM, Cris Fuhrman  wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm using Windows 10, LyX 2.2.2 on an article I've been working on for
> months, and all my citations started to appear as question marks (?) and no
> References section is produced. It was working before, so something got
> hosed on my machine.
>
> I tried the LyX file on another Windows machine with LyX/MikTeX and it is
> working fine, so I'm certain it's the config of my machine. The LaTeX code
> generated by LyX works fine in TeXStudio, so I think my MikTeX installation
> is OK.
>
> I tried LyX "Reconfigure" many times, but it seems to change nothing.
>
> There are no BibTeX errors that appear in logs (that I can see), and I'm
> at a loss of where to start troubleshooting. I did try a new document with
> a minimal BibTeX example and it's the same problem, yet no clues about why
> it's happening.
>
> Do I have to turn on some debug messages? Which ones? Any reason why LyX
> is not catching the error? Shouldn't there be one?
>
> Cheers,
>
> C. Fuhrman
>
>

Troubleshooting BibTeX in LyX

[Cris Fuhrman]

Hello,

I'm using Windows 10, LyX 2.2.2 on an article I've been working on for
months, and all my citations started to appear as question marks (?) and no
References section is produced. It was working before, so something got
hosed on my machine.

I tried the LyX file on another Windows machine with LyX/MikTeX and it is
working fine, so I'm certain it's the config of my machine. The LaTeX code
generated by LyX works fine in TeXStudio, so I think my MikTeX installation
is OK.

I tried LyX "Reconfigure" many times, but it seems to change nothing.

There are no BibTeX errors that appear in logs (that I can see), and I'm at
a loss of where to start troubleshooting. I did try a new document with a
minimal BibTeX example and it's the same problem, yet no clues about why
it's happening.

Do I have to turn on some debug messages? Which ones? Any reason why LyX is
not catching the error? Shouldn't there be one?

Cheers,

C. Fuhrman