Paul Rubin wrote
I just installed 1.3.7pre4 (after uninstalling prior versions) and had a
mild adventure. During installation, I got a message to the effect that
the configuration script had failed (and, indeed, it did not appear to
run). I had the box to start LyX at the end of the installation checked,
and it opened fine and appeared to function properly, from which I
concluded that it had read the old configuration (which was not lost
when I uninstalled the software). I closed LyX and double-clicked the
icon to restart it, and it appeared at first that nothing was happening
(no windows, no prompts). So I opened a process viewer and discovered
that lyx.exe was in fact running, and was repeatedly invoking sh.exe. I
took this to be the configuration script running, and indeed it
eventually started pestering me to install LaTeX classes I don't have.
After the configuration script completed, LyX started and worked properly.
I tried the same and obtained the message "Failed attempting to execute
the configure script." But, in my case, Lyx did not run at all. lyx
-dbg 2 returns the message "This application has requested a runtime to
terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the application's support
team for more information."
I unsinstalled pre4 and installed pre1 which works fine.
Ekkehart
