On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 11:32:26PM -0400, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > On 3/10/19 8:47 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > > Attached is a user directory. I believe I happened to create it from a > > weird situation. Maybe TeX Live was half-way installed or something like > > that. In any case, LyX won't compile to PDF with pdflatex when this user > > directory is used. That's probably not too strange. But when I > > reconfigure and restart, LyX still doesn't want to compile to PDF with > > pdflatex. Note that LyX will compile to PDF with lualatex. The > > configure.log contains the following: > > > > INFO: checking for the pdflatex program... > > INFO: +checking for "pdflatex"... yes > > > > so I'm not sure why the button is greyed out. > > > > To reproduce: > > > > 1. tar -xzf userdir123.tar.gz && lyx -userdir ./userdir123 > > 2. Note that you cannot compile a simple "hello" document to PDF with > > pdflatex. > > 3. Reconfigure and restart. > > 4. You still cannot compile a simple "hello" document to PDF with pdflatex. > > > > I can reproduce on 2.3.x and on master. Can anyone else reproduce? > > > > I'm unsure if this is worth looking into since I think the user > > directory was the result of a strange situation. But I remember seeing > > reports where a reconfigure doesn't solve anything but removing the > > directory does, so perhaps this situation is common in some way. > > > > Scott > Confirmed on LyX 2.3.2. The converters for both LaTeX (pdflatex) to PDF > (pdflatex) and LaTeX (plain) to DVI are missing in the Tools > > Preferences... dialog. Both appear in the preferences file in your > directory, but that file looks odd, and in particular lacks the opening > comment about being created by LyX. > > Comparing the configuration log in your directory to my normal one, and > ignoring a few minor differences, yours contains a whole bunch of checks for > document classes beginning with "test". For example: > > INFO: +checking for document class testbraille [testbraille]... no > Mine has none of those. I'm not sure if this is significant. On the other > hand, my lyxrc.defaults and yours are identical (at least after I > reconfigured in your directory). > > At any rate, I tried editing the lines relating to the pdflatex and DVI > converters out of the preferences file in your directory. After that (and a > restart of LyX from that directory), both pdflatex and DVI output worked. So > I think the problem is the odd (if not mangled) preferences file.
Thanks for doing that, Paul! I wonder if something even stranger than I thought is going on with that user directory. Perhaps I somehow ran two instances of configure.py simultaneously? I can look into this possibility. Scott
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