Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: > Hi Angus, > > Here is another clue. I ran the lyx executable with strace under Cygwin. > > The output was very interesting and seems to point to an infinite > loop in startup: > > [...] > 39 433123 [main] lyx 3884 mount_info::conv_to_posix_path: > conv_to_posix_path (/usr/local/, keep-rel, add-slash) > 25 433148 [main] lyx 3884 normalize_win32_path: \usr\local\ = > normalize_win32_path (/usr/local/) > 22 433170 [main] lyx 3884 mount_info::conv_to_posix_path: /usr/local/ > = conv_to_posix_path (/usr/local/) > 35 433205 [main] lyx 3884 mount_info::conv_to_posix_path: > conv_to_posix_path (/usr/local/, keep-rel, add-slash) > 24 433229 [main] lyx 3884 normalize_win32_path: \usr\local\ = > normalize_win32_path (/usr/local/) > 23 433252 [main] lyx 3884 mount_info::conv_to_posix_path: /usr/local/ > = conv_to_posix_path (/usr/local/) > 36 433288 [main] lyx 3884 mount_info::conv_to_posix_path: > conv_to_posix_path (/usr/local/, keep-rel, add-slash) > 25 433313 [main] lyx 3884 normalize_win32_path: \usr\local\ = > normalize_win32_path (/usr/local/) > 22 433335 [main] lyx 3884 mount_info::conv_to_posix_path: /usr/local/ > = conv_to_posix_path (/usr/local/) > 35 433370 [main] lyx 3884 mount_info::conv_to_posix_path: > conv_to_posix_path (/usr/local/, keep-rel, add-slash) > 25 433395 [main] lyx 3884 normalize_win32_path: \usr\local\ = > normalize_win32_path (/usr/local/) > 22 433417 [main] lyx 3884 mount_info::conv_to_posix_path: /usr/local/ > = conv_to_posix_path (/usr/local/) > > > The above is repeated forever till (I presume) stack space is exhasuted > and LyX does not start up. > > Does this give you any ideas of where to look?
Sure. This means that the s/slashify_path/internal_path/ switch was less carefully done that it needed to be. Mea culpa. I'll try and come up with something in the next couple of hours. -- Angus
