I apologize if this is already known, but I didn't find any
reports of this behavior. It is fairly easy to reproduce. I
copied the file Extended.lyx from the doc directory to my home
directory to try some export features. As soon as I open the
file, it crashes the X server! (Not just lyx.) After dumping
the standard output and error into a file, I found that the
missing mobius.eps file first causes ghostview errors and then
lyx catches an exception and the X server crashes. Here are
the last few lines of the output file:
Dictionary stack:
--dict:950/983(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:66/200(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Last OS error: 2
Aladdin Ghostscript 6.0: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
GS [10586] error 256 E:1 1 S:0 0
lyx: SIGHUP signal caught
Bye.
Under the circumstances it's not easy to run lyx under gdb. For
the record, I am running Red Hat 6.1, with gnome and afterstep
as the window manager (so it is possible that either gnome or
afterstep crash, not X; in any case I am back at the gdm login
screen). Also, I installed version 1.1.4.fix2 off an RPM (from
the link given in the lyx web cite). Thank you for your time.
Vassili
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Vassili Papavassiliou
NMSU, Physics Dept.
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone: (505) 646-1310
