On Sunday 24 June 2007 00:30, Wolfgang Engelmann shared this with us all: <snip>
>--} This is what happended: >--} >--} Lyx was complaining about not enough space in ///tmp/lyx_tmpdir.... >--} since ///tmp is in my case a separate partition (was probably a bad > idea!) and --} has only 140MB I changed in Lyx the path to > /home/wolfgang/Lyx-tmp. --} >--} I furthermore removed the content of /lyx_tmpdir in ///tmp >--} >--} I started Lyx and got the message >--} LyX could not create the temporary directory '/tmp/lyx_tmpdir63043uH0e4' >--} >--} I followed the advice of Paul Rubin: >--} Find the 'preferences' file in your home directory (might be under >--} .lyx on a Linux system -- I'm on Windoze, so I'm not sure). Open it >--} with an editor (presumably not LyX) and find the file section. There >--} should be an entry labeled \tempdir_path. Delete it, save the file, and >--} try to start LyX. This should revert you to the original /tmp. >--} >--} Lyx created '/tmp/lyx_tmpdir... ' again and I could use Lyx again. >--} >--} However, the problem stays with me, that the space of the ///tmp file > is --} quickly exhausted (with just one run of a Lyx file -it contains lots > of --} figures): 133 out of 140 MB are occupied. >--} >--} I don´t know whether I can reduce the size of another partition and > increase --} the /tmp-partition. As you have noticed, I am quite > unexperienced with --} administrative work and fear things end up in chaos. > I would therefore prefer --} to use the method I tried (redirect path to > /tmp in my home/wolfgang), if I --} can avoid the problem I described > before >--} > >--} > What version are using? (1.4.x I assume). >--} >--} 1.4.3 >--} >--} Wolfgang In a terminal window:- You did as wolfgang:-$ mkdir Lyx-tmp Then you did:- wolfgang:-$ chmod 744 -v Lyx-tmp Then you started Lyx and and changed the path to the /tmp directory Then you hit <reconfigure> which told you it had been reconfigured and you have to shutdown and restart Lyx - You did that and it still didn't work? Charlie -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ People with opinions just go around bothering one another. -------------- THE BUDDHA *********************************************** Debian ___________________________________________________________
