Removing ~/.lyx does not change anything. It still crashes right away (note that the window, buttons, etc are fully drawn and the file examples/splash.lyx gets loaded before the SIGSEGV dialog box appears).
________________________________ From: Pavel Sanda <sa...@lyx.org> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 4:33 PM Subject: Re: LyX SEGSEGV crash just after GUI window appears Craig wrote: > I just installed LyX 2.0.3 on a Gentoo system and the application is crashing > as soon as the window opens. I get a dialog box with the SIGSEGV message and > then it dies. The strange part is that I can run LyX successfully if I run > it as root. Idon't know if this a LyX bug or a Gentoo packaging issue, so I > would appreciate any suggestions from the LyX experts about how to diagnose > the problem. LyX info and the backtrace are posted below. If you think it > is a Gentoo packaging issue, please tell me as much as you can so that I can > post a good bug report. Does (re)moving of ~/.lyx help? P