Am Samstag, 23. Juni 2007 21:00 schrieb Paul A. Rubin:
> Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Did you create this directory, and did you give it access permissions
> consistent with whatever user id LyX runs under?

I did create the Lyx-tmp file while incidently still under root. So, your 
guess:
> Again, I'm guessing, but maybe LyX tried to write to
> /home/wolfgang/Lyx-tmp, couldn't find it (or lacked permission),
> reverted to /tmp and then couldn't write there. 

was correct. Sorry for all the fuzz. 

Wolfgang

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