John W. Sheppard, PhD wrote:
I apologize beforehand if this is one of those emails that appears a lot on
the list. I have looked through the www.lyx.org website and don't seem to be
able to find what I am looking for.
The empty textclass.lst phenomenon occurs repeatedly in the list, but
your symptoms are somewhat different from most.
Recently, I downloaded lyx 1.3.6 for Windows and installed it. At first,
everything worked great until I attempted to install some packages that I
just "skipped through" during initial installation.
Were the "skipped" packages LaTeX packages (and, if so, are you using
MiKTeX), or were they supporting programs (Ghostscript, MinSYS, ...)?
Now, when I run lyx, I
instantly get a popup message that says
LyX wasn't able to find any layout description!
Check the contents of the file "textclass.lst"
Sorry, has to exist :-(
[OK]
I press the OK button and everything goes away. I looked at textclass.lst
and don't see anything useful.
There are (or should be) two copies of textclass.lst on your system.
One would be in C:\Program Files\LyX\Resources\lyx (assuming that's
where you installed LyX), and the other would be in C:\Documents and
Settings\your_id_here\Application Data\lyx. Which did you look at
(both?), and did you see content in them, or were they empty (zero
bytes)? The most common, if not only, problem with textclass.lst on
Windows systems seems to be the configure script writing a zero-length
file as a result of something going wrong.
I attempted to "manually run" configure, but
that doesn't work either. I have also attempted to uninstall and reinstall,
but nothing changes.
By "manually run", do you mean running 'sh configure' in the C:\Program
Files\LyX\Resources\lyx directory? If so, does that spew a lot of
progress information to the shell window and, most importantly, does it
indicate that a working copy of latex.exe was found?
Paul
