On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Matthieu Amiguet wrote:
> Hello!
Hello, Matthieu.
First a tip: Don't post multi-megabyte files to any mailing list put the
file on a web or ftp server and provide a link.
Second tip: All LyX files are ascii, so even if LyX doesn't start you can
still read the file using 'more' or 'less'.
> I'm using Lyx under LinuxPPC, kernel 2.2.17pre13-ben1 on an iMac DV. I
> was using the Xpmac X server and everything was going fine (by the way,
> I think I couldn't live without lyx now...)
> Today, I changed my X server to XFree 4.0. Everything seems to be fine,
> excepted that lyx doesn't start any more...
> That bothers me very much, because I use Linux mainly because of lyx...
>
> When I run Lyx from the console, I get
>
> > lyx: SIGSEGV signal caught
> > Sorry, you have found a bug in LyX. If possible, please read 'Known bugs'
> > under the Help menu and then send us a full bug report. Thanks!
> > Bye.
> > Aborted (core dumped)
If you have gdb installed you can do some helpful stuff for us that means
you don't need to send core files -- we don't really want these
anyway (my mailbox quota was competely overblown). Do this:
gdb lyx | tee lyx-dump.txt
once gdb starts you'll get a prompt:
(gdb):
at the prompt type:
(gdb): run
when lyx crashes type
(gdb): bt
then type:
(gdb): up
a few times till you get to LyX code. You'll know you are there when you
start seeing lines of code printed after the prompt.
(gdb): info locals
(gdb): up
repeat these steps a couple of times. Then type:
(gdb): quit
Send us the lyx-dump.txt file.
Allan. (ARRae)
