On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>
> We would have to see the file (or a reduced version of it). Note that
> 1.1.4 was not as good as 1.1.5 for catching latex errors, so the
> problem might have been there from the beginning.
>
Actually there were two bugs, yesterday. Trying to get a reduced version of the
file that produced them, I identified one of them.
The first bug is that the .lyx file I opened, resided in a directory with
*spaces* in it, (i.e. /blabla/blabla/full document). You will get the
"missing \begin[document}" on any file opened or created in a directory with
spaces. This did not happen in 1.1.4, though the correct postscript might not
appear on the first try.
What does occur in 1.1.4 (and repeats itself in 1.1.5) is that input files
which reside in directories with spaces (like: /blabla/blabla/chapter 1) will
confuse latex into the error: "cannot \read from terminal in nonstop modes".
Maybe all this non-spaces is a LaTex limitation?
The second bug, which caused the crash, seems more complicated. It does not
have anything to do with the configured system memory as I thought previously.
The two different memory configurations belonged to two different redhat
versions (6.1 and 6.2). I believe it has to do with a "missing something" in the
6.2 instalation. This is because it does not repeat itself on the 6.1
which has "everything" installed, nor on another 6.2 with "everything"
installed. As soon as I start typing it crashes. In fact, not even 1.1.4 runs.
I suspect it has something to do with the latin-1 char set I use.
This is the traceback it produced:
error_handler (err_sig=11) at ./src/lyxmain.C:766
__restore() at ./sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/sigaction.c:127
LyXFunc::Dispatch(this=0x8230320, ac=-1,do_not_use_this_arg=0x8a21e8 " ") at
lyxfunc.C:2661
LyXFunc::processKeyEvent(this=0x8230320,ev=0x81e2540) at lyxfunc.C:311
LyXView::KeyPressMask_raw_callback (fl=0x8227d90,xev=0x81e2540) at LyXView.C:452
pre_emptive_consumed() at lyxstring.h:198
do_interaction_step() at lyxstring.h:198
fl_treat_interaction_events() at lyxstring.h:198
fl_check_forms() at lyxstring.h:198
fl_check_forms () at lyxstring.h:198
LyXGUI::runTime(this=0x81fd970) at lyx_gui.C:595
Lyx:Lyx(this=0xbffffcf4) at ./src/main.C:75
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Edscott
