Is this problem specifically linked to 1.6.4? Or will 1.6.3 present it? I have Snow Leopard in my hand and 1.6.3 installed on my wife's computer. Haven't installed the OS waiting for this problem to solve. ------------------------------------------------- Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 2:16 AM, William Bray<b...@math.umemat.maine.edu> wrote: > I am currently testing Lyx 1.6.4 under Snow Leopard, the official release. > (I got the binary from the Lyx server before it was taken off; it does have > the problem that Preferences is grayed out as a menu choice, but can be > opened using keys CMD + , . I have not noticed any other problems with Lyx > 1.6.4?) > I created a generic Lyx file, typed a bunch of stuff and let it sit. After > about 5 minutes, a pop up window appeared reporting that Lyx crashed. My > console report looks alot like the one in the bug report (link below). > However, Lyx did not actually crash. After choosing Ignore, Lyx was still > running and I could continue to type, save, edit, etc, the file. > The crash reoccurs about every 5 minutes, which does correspond to the > autosave time set in preferences. > I turned off autosave and Lyx has not sent up another crash pop up as yet > (we are about 15 minutes in at this point. > > This is just a follow up to the question of Knaus. I am going to continue to > use Lyx under Snow Leopard and see where it takes me. > > Bill > > On Aug 27, 2009, at 8:30 AM, Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote: > >>> Hello, >>> >>> I ordered the new Mac OS Snowleopard this week and I wonder >>> if any of the Lyx-(Mac)-Developers has already tested Lyx >>> under a Developer- Version of Snowleopard? >>> >>> Will the Lyx-Binary run on Snowleopard? >>> Anyway, I'll test it and post it here. >>> >>> Johannes. >>> >> >> We are a bit short on Mac developers, so I doubt that you'll get an >> authorative answer. >> >> But, the good news is that I've heard of someone running LyX on >> Snowleopard, the bad news is that I heard this by means of a bug report: >> >> http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6168. >> >> So, it'll be interesting whether this crash actually has to do something >> with Snowleopard or not. >> >> Vincent > >