On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 07:42:22AM +1000, Pete Crite wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been trying to subscribe to the mailing list. I've sent four emails 
> in total to [email protected] over the last four days, 
> but only received one "confirmation" reply. I've checked my spam box, 
> but nothing is there.

Sorry for the trouble. Looks like it's working for you now.

> I replied to the single "confirmation" email five times in total as 
> well, but received no reply. I also tried emailing 
> [email protected] , but got no reply. Hopefully this email 
> gets through to the list, but please cc: me directly.
> 
> ==========
> 
> LyX's pipes recently stopped working. I used to be able to open a file 
> in an existing LyX instance with
> 
>     echo "LYXCMD:lyx-script:file-open:filename.lyx" > ~/.lyx/lyxpipe.in
> 
> However, this no longer works. The command stalls, and the file is not 
> opened. I confirmed the absence of pipes when LyX was closed, and the 
> presence when it restarted.

Do you have a guess for what changed? Did you update to 2.1.4 or are you
sure that it used to work with LyX 2.1.4?

Scott

> JabRef is also failing to push references to LyX, although it doesn't 
> report any errors.
> 
> I attempted starting LyX with `lyx -dbg 8192 filename.lyx`, with the 
> following output.
> 
> $ lyx -dbg 8192 filename.lyx
> 16:41:06 Setting debug level to 8192
> Debugging `undo' (Undo/Redo mechanism)
> QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 0 and type 'Read', disabling...
> Undo.cpp (516): +++++++Creating new group 1
> Undo.cpp (531): -------End of group 1
> Undo.cpp (516): +++++++Creating new group 2
> Undo.cpp (531): -------End of group 2
> Undo.cpp (516): +++++++Creating new group 3
> Undo.cpp (531): -------End of group 3
> Undo.cpp (516): +++++++Creating new group 4
> Undo.cpp (531): -------End of group 4
> Undo.cpp (516): +++++++Creating new group 5
> LyXComm: Could not close pipe /home/pete/.lyx/lyxpipe.in
> Bad file descriptor
> 
> The final two lines appear when I quit, although the file *is* deleted. 
> How can I get LyX's pipes working again?
> 
> Arch Linux: up-to-date.
> LyX 2.1.4 from official Arch packages.
> 
> Cheers,
> Pete.

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