Jens Noeckel wrote: > > On Jul 28, 2006, at 10:39 AM, Jeff Whitaker wrote: > >> Jens Noeckel wrote: >>> Hi, >>> I have lyx-qt 1.4.1-1 installed from unstable with fink 0.8.1.rsync >>> i386 on a MacBook Pro, and get a crash when I do a particular >>> sequence of steps in lyx. I've reported this to the lyx developers >>> but also wanted to report it here, in case anyone else experiences >>> this (i've now checked this on three different machines, PPC and >>> Intel, and also on the Non-X11 Qt LyX-Mac version 1.4.2): >>> >>> Try opening a new file, type a few words with a math inset among >>> them. Save the file. Then erase the math inset and save again. >>> Immediately afterwards, exit lyx. That causes a crash. >>> >>> The error message on the terminal is: >>> >>> Mutex destroy failure: Resource busy >>> >>> lyx: SIGSEGV signal caught >>> Sorry, you have found a bug in LyX. Please read the bug-reporting >>> instructions in Help->Introduction and send us a bug report, if >>> necessary. Thanks ! >>> Bye. >>> /sw/bin/lyx: line 15: 4178 Abort trap /sw/bin/lyxx $@ >>> >>> I've also checked this on a PPC machine - there, the program also >>> aborts abnormally but with fewer messages after the "Mutex destroy >>> failure: Resource busy". >>> >>> Jens >>> >> >> Jens; From the 1.4.2 release notes: >> >> * Fix a crash on exit on MacOS X, and the well known "Mutex destroy >> failure" >> error message on Linux (qt frontend, bugs 2549 and 1029). >> >> I'm testing a package for 1.4.2 now, will let you know when it is >> committed. >> >> -Jeff >> >> > > Jeff - I do still see the crash on LyX-Mac 1.4.2, though. It will be > interesting to see if it is still there in the fink package, too... > > By the way, while compiling lyx 1.4.2 myself, I discovered (or Google > discovered for me) that there is a way to patch QT-mac so that the > Ctrl key regains its emacs-like functionality, and the Command key > becomes a meta key. I tried it and it works with the Mac versions of > qt3 and lyx 1.4.2. I wonder if one can also do something like that > with the X11 qt3 that fink's lyx uses. That way lyx-qt would finally > have a meta key, the way it did with xforms. If there's interest in > this, I could send more information... > > Thanks, > Jens > > > Jens: I've updated lyx-qt in 10.4 unstable to 1.4.2, and I can't reproduce your crash with it.
As for the qt patch, Benjamin Reed is the qt3 package maintainer so I'd send the patch to him. -Jeff -- Jeffrey S. Whitaker Phone : (303)497-6313 NOAA/OAR/CDC R/PSD1 FAX : (303)497-6449 325 Broadway Boulder, CO, USA 80305-3328 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
