Hello there, I'm a fan of LyX but sometimes it gets me going :)
I open the LyX User's Guide (or any other document) and klick on a reference. The pop-up dialog is empty showing none of the existing labels and when I click 'Update' LyX crashes with the message "lyx: SIGSEGV signal caught". I'm afraid something is messed up with my setup, although I specifically followed the instructions on the WiKi. The packaged LyX of my Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid is old. I want the great new intellisense stuff of 1.6.*. Furthermore, the Wiki and other sources recommend texlive instead of the default tetex or whatever is installed by default (anyway not the recent 2008 version). I closely followed the instructions from the official texlive 2008 documentation to perform the network installation over internet. Next, I wanted to install LyX. I did so using the packages from getdeb from this link: http://www.getdeb.net/app/LyX. From there I installed the lyx-common and lyx packages. Everything seemed smooth until I ran into the described error. Can someone help me, please? I'm a bit of a Linux newbie coming from Windows. Ah, and I run Gnome. I remember reading somewhere that LyX is best with KDE. Is that true (without getting into the Gnome vs. KDE topic)? Thanks a bunch Martin
