Hi all, over the last few months, I've been writing my thesis in lyx (using it many hours every day). I'm using lyx-1.6.1 on fedora 10 (the version available through fedora's package manager yum). Since this week, however, I'm experiencing very frequent crashes (being able to work for 15 minutes without a crash has become exceptional). Before, lyx almost never crashed.
Most crashes seem to occur when moving the cursor with the arrow keys, especially when selecting things (moving around when shift is pressed), but sometimes also when editing formulas or just text. Sometimes it just locks up, sometimes it becomes extremely slow (it takes about 20 seconds to respond to a keypress, for instance) and then locks up. When it is very slow or locked up, there is no excessive cpu or ram usage. The only way to close the program is to kill it. I usually start it from an xterm, but there are no problem related messages dispayed in the terminal when it crashes. No emergency copy of the document is saved, all work that wasn't saved is lost in the crash. Since the problem has started so suddenly, I suspect it may be caused by a package update (fedora very regularly offer package updates). I have a list of recently updated packages, but am quite clueless about which may cause the problem. Since I've only done relatively small edits since early last week, I don't exactly know which date the problem started, only that it was after february 24th, so I have included the (relatively long) list of updated packages since then at the and of this post. No other programs are having problems, lyx seems to be the only one. If anyone has any suggestions I would be very grateful. Kind regards, Michael List of updated packages (from /var/log/yum.log): Feb 25 01:41:27 Updated: gvfs-1.0.3-5.fc10.i386 Feb 25 01:41:27 Updated: libgcrypt-1.4.4-1.fc10.i386 Feb 25 01:41:28 Updated: 2:gimp-libs-2.6.5-1.fc10.i386 Feb 25 01:41:31 Updated: system-config-printer-libs-1.0.15-1.fc10.i386 Feb 25 01:41:35 Updated: ghex-2.24.0-2.fc10.i386 Feb 25 01:41:56 Updated: 2:gimp-2.6.5-1.fc10.i386 Feb 25 01:41:57 Updated: libgcrypt-devel-1.4.4-1.fc10.i386 Feb 25 01:41:57 Updated: gvfs-smb-1.0.3-5.fc10.i386 Feb 25 01:41:58 Updated: gvfs-obexftp-1.0.3-5.fc10.i386 Feb 25 01:41:58 Updated: gvfs-gphoto2-1.0.3-5.fc10.i386 Feb 25 01:41:58 Updated: gvfs-archive-1.0.3-5.fc10.i386 Feb 25 01:41:58 Updated: gvfs-fuse-1.0.3-5.fc10.i386 Feb 25 01:41:59 Updated: 1:wpa_supplicant-0.6.4-3.fc10.i386 Feb 25 01:42:19 Updated: gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.13-1.fc10.i386 Feb 25 01:42:19 Updated: xorg-x11-server-common-1.5.3-13.fc10.i386 Feb 25 01:42:21 Updated: system-config-printer-1.0.15-1.fc10.i386 Feb 25 01:42:24 Updated: flash-plugin-10.0.22.87-release.i386 Feb 25 01:42:24 Updated: fontpackages-filesystem-1.20-1.fc10.noarch Feb 25 01:42:25 Updated: xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.5.3-13.fc10.i386 Feb 25 01:42:26 Updated: rpm-libs-4.6.0-1.fc10.i386 Feb 25 01:42:29 Updated: rpm-4.6.0-1.fc10.i386 Feb 25 01:42:29 Updated: rpm-devel-4.6.0-1.fc10.i386 Feb 25 01:42:30 Updated: rpm-build-4.6.0-1.fc10.i386 Feb 25 01:42:31 Updated: rpm-python-4.6.0-1.fc10.i386 Feb 25 01:42:47 Updated: rpm-4.6.0-1.fc10.i386 Feb 26 03:28:23 Updated: e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.4-1.fc10.i386 Feb 26 03:28:23 Updated: crontabs-1.10-26.fc10.noarch Feb 26 03:28:26 Updated: e2fsprogs-1.41.4-1.fc10.i386 Feb 26 03:28:27 Updated: hal-cups-utils-0.6.19-1.fc10.i386 Feb 26 03:28:29 Updated: e2fsprogs-devel-1.41.4-1.fc10.i386 Feb 26 03:28:31 Updated: anacron-2.3-66.fc10.i386 Feb 27 03:42:22 Updated: 1:gdm-2.24.1-4.fc10.i386 Feb 27 03:42:23 Updated: 2:ntfs-3g-2009.2.1-2.fc10.i386 Feb 27 03:42:29 Updated: pygtk2-2.13.0-3.fc10.i386 Feb 27 03:42:29 Updated: libmusicbrainz3-3.0.2-4.fc10.i386 Feb 27 03:42:30 Updated: 2:libpng-1.2.35-1.fc10.i386 Feb 27 03:42:31 Updated: xorg-x11-drv-evdev-2.1.3-1.fc10.i386 Feb 27 03:42:31 Updated: pygtk2-libglade-2.13.0-3.fc10.i386 Feb 27 03:42:32 Updated: 1:gdm-user-switch-applet-2.24.1-4.fc10.i386 Feb 27 03:42:32 Updated: setup-2.7.4-4.fc10.noarch Feb 28 22:49:40 Updated: pciutils-libs-3.0.2-3.fc10.i386 Feb 28 22:49:41 Updated: pciutils-3.0.2-3.fc10.i386 Feb 28 22:49:42 Updated: iok-1.3.1-1.fc10.i386 Feb 28 22:49:53 Updated: coreutils-6.12-19.fc10.i386 Feb 28 22:49:54 Updated: upstart-0.3.9-22.fc10.i386 Feb 28 22:49:54 Updated: pciutils-devel-3.0.2-3.fc10.i386 Mar 03 01:57:46 Updated: mplayer-1.0-0.104.20090204svn.fc10.i386 Mar 04 02:34:52 Updated: selinux-policy-3.5.13-46.fc10.noarch Mar 04 02:34:53 Updated: kernel-firmware-2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.noarch Mar 04 02:35:04 Installed: system-config-date-1.9.36-1.fc10.noarch Mar 04 02:35:08 Installed: system-config-date-docs-1.0.5-1.fc10.noarch Mar 04 02:36:01 Updated: selinux-policy-targeted-3.5.13-46.fc10.noarch Mar 04 02:36:09 Updated: kernel-headers-2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.i386 Mar 04 02:36:38 Installed: kernel-devel-2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.i686 Mar 04 02:36:43 Updated: gvfs-1.0.3-6.fc10.i386 Mar 04 02:36:44 Updated: audit-libs-1.7.12-1.fc10.i386 Mar 04 02:36:44 Updated: 1:cups-libs-1.3.9-8.fc10.i386 Mar 04 02:36:46 Updated: gtkhtml3-3.24.5-1.fc10.i386 Mar 04 02:36:51 Updated: evolution-data-server-2.24.5-1.fc10.i386 Mar 04 02:37:33 Updated: evolution-2.24.5-1.fc10.i386 Mar 04 02:37:35 Updated: SDL-1.2.13-7.fc10.i386 Mar 04 02:37:36 Updated: linuxwacom-0.8.0.3-8.fc10.i386 Mar 04 02:37:37 Updated: libgxim-0.3.2-3.fc10.i386 Mar 04 02:37:38 Updated: soprano-2.2.3-1.fc10.i386 Mar 04 02:37:41 Updated: anthy-9100h-1.fc10.i386 Mar 04 02:37:48 Updated: 1:cups-1.3.9-8.fc10.i386 Mar 04 02:37:48 Updated: gvfs-gphoto2-1.0.3-6.fc10.i386 Mar 04 02:37:49 Updated: xorg-x11-drv-vmmouse-12.6.3-3.fc10.i386 Mar 04 02:37:49 Updated: gvfs-obexftp-1.0.3-6.fc10.i386 Mar 04 02:37:49 Updated: gvfs-smb-1.0.3-6.fc10.i386 Mar 04 02:37:50 Updated: gvfs-archive-1.0.3-6.fc10.i386 Mar 04 02:37:50 Updated: 1:cups-devel-1.3.9-8.fc10.i386 Mar 04 02:37:52 Updated: alsa-utils-1.0.19-2.fc10.i386 Mar 04 02:37:53 Updated: audit-1.7.12-1.fc10.i386 Mar 04 02:37:53 Updated: gvfs-fuse-1.0.3-6.fc10.i386 Mar 04 02:37:53 Updated: audit-libs-python-1.7.12-1.fc10.i386 Mar 04 02:38:15 Installed: kernel-2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.i686 Mar 04 02:38:16 Updated: evolution-perl-2.24.5-1.fc10.i386 Mar 04 02:39:53 Installed: kernel-2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.i686 Mar 06 01:44:50 Updated: gssdp-0.6.4-1.fc10.i386 Mar 06 01:44:52 Updated: gupnp-0.12.6-1.fc10.i386 Mar 06 01:44:55 Updated: fftw-3.2.1-1.fc10.i386 Mar 06 01:45:04 Updated: libgxim-0.3.2-4.fc10.i386 Mar 06 01:45:04 Updated: xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-0.15.2-4.fc10.i386 Mar 06 01:45:05 Updated: gssdp-devel-0.6.4-1.fc10.i386 Mar 06 01:45:07 Updated: gupnp-devel-0.12.6-1.fc10.i386 Mar 06 23:35:49 Updated: libtalloc-1.2.0-27.fc10.i386 Mar 06 23:35:50 Updated: libtdb-1.1.1-27.fc10.i386 Mar 06 23:35:50 Updated: bluez-libs-4.30-2.fc10.i386 Mar 06 23:35:51 Updated: libcurl-7.19.4-1.fc10.i386 Mar 06 23:35:54 Updated: libcurl-devel-7.19.4-1.fc10.i386 Mar 06 23:35:54 Updated: curl-7.19.4-1.fc10.i386 Mar 06 23:35:57 Updated: bluez-4.30-2.fc10.i386 Mar 06 23:35:57 Updated: bluez-cups-4.30-2.fc10.i386 Mar 06 23:35:57 Updated: bluez-alsa-4.30-2.fc10.i386 Mar 06 23:35:58 Updated: jhead-2.86-1.fc10.i386 Mar 06 23:36:00 Updated: samba-winbind-3.2.8-0.27.fc10.i386 Mar 06 23:36:05 Updated: samba-common-3.2.8-0.27.fc10.i386 Mar 06 23:36:09 Updated: samba-3.2.8-0.27.fc10.i386 Mar 06 23:36:14 Updated: samba-client-3.2.8-0.27.fc10.i386 Mar 06 23:36:15 Updated: libsmbclient-3.2.8-0.27.fc10.i386
