Re: lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-09 Thread Siegfried Meunier-Guttin-Cluzel
Since I often have this problem, I've found a workaround ( not a nice one, but it works when the formats aren't too different). I simply change the number of the LyX format. Open your file with a text editor and see the second line e. g. \lyxformat 276 Change this number to match the number used

Re: lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-09 Thread M-L
to change many documents from LyX 1.6.1 and deleted the first 6 or so lines at the top of the documents and replaced them with 6 or so lines of the older version. I didn't realise it was this simple. Anything that works is a nice workaround. So thank you. Charlie -- Registered Linux User:- 329524

Re: lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-09 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
M-L wrote: I recall that I once had to change many documents from LyX 1.6.1 and deleted the first 6 or so lines at the top of the documents and replaced them with 6 or so lines of the older version. I didn't realise it was this simple. Anything that works is a nice workaround. Note

Re: lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-09 Thread M-L
On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 11:21:45 +0100 Jürgen Spitzmüller juer...@spitzmueller.org wrote: M-L wrote: I recall that I once had to change many documents from LyX 1.6.1 and deleted the first 6 or so lines at the top of the documents and replaced them with 6 or so lines of the older version. I

Re: lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-09 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
M-L wrote: I created some files on LyX 1.6.1 in windows XP and then went to: File - then to Export - then to LyX 1.5.x With each of them. Then emailed them as an attachment and later picked it up on my Linux Debian Lenny machine and tried to open it with LyX 1.5.5 It wouldn't open

RE: lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-09 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
I created some files on LyX 1.6.1 in windows XP and then went to: [...] Then emailed them as an attachment and later picked it up on my Linux Debian Lenny machine and tried to open it with LyX 1.5.5 I've heard this before. I think this was raised as a possible cause for bug http

Re: lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-09 Thread rgheck
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: The method proposed by Siegfried works if (and only if) you do not use a new feature of LyX 1.6 and if you do not use a feature whose semantics was changed (which is the case for many features). Let me just clarify what Jurgen means by this by giving an example.

Re: problems with lyx 1.6.1

2009-03-09 Thread rgheck
Gesualdo Scutari wrote: Dear all, I'm writing because I have a serious problem using lyx 1.6.1 on my MAC OS 10.5.6 and MacTex 2008. I'm used to write papers to be submitted to IEEE journals. I use both article class in lyx and IEEEtran class. In both cases lyx cannot load the bibliography. I

Re: problems with lyx 1.6.1

2009-03-09 Thread Florian Rubach
Gesualdo Scutari schrieb: Dear all, I'm writing because I have a serious problem using lyx 1.6.1 on my MAC OS 10.5.6 and MacTex 2008. I'm used to write papers to be submitted to IEEE journals. I use both article class in lyx and IEEEtran class. In both cases lyx cannot load the bibliography

Re: Very frequent crashes in 1.6.1 (with loss of work)

2009-03-09 Thread Richard Heck
rgheck wrote: Van Damme Michael wrote: I have downloaded version 1.6.2svn (from the svn server) and tried it, but the problem remains. Is is quick enough to reproduce (or you comuputer fast enough) to run Lyx under valgrind until you hit the problem? James I've never used

Re: problems with lyx 1.6.1

2009-03-09 Thread Richard Heck
Florian Rubach wrote: Gesualdo Scutari schrieb: Dear all, I'm writing because I have a serious problem using lyx 1.6.1 on my MAC OS 10.5.6 and MacTex 2008. I'm used to write papers to be submitted to IEEE journals. I use both article class in lyx and IEEEtran class. In both cases lyx cannot

re:Re: Very frequent crashes in 1.6.1 (with loss of work)

2009-03-09 Thread Van Damme Michael
rgheck wrote: I'll have a look at this under one of my Fedora 10 machines. As I said in the bug report, I was unable to reproduce this problem under F10, even fully updated. And that was using the test file attached to the report, trying to follow the instructions given. It's possible

Re: lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-09 Thread rgheck
M-L wrote: On Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:58:49 -0400 rgheck rgh...@bobjweil.com wrote: As Jurgen said, export to 1.5.x should work on Windows, too. But you have to find the right file: FILENAME.lyx15. Thank you for that. I will have to look for the right file in windows. It seems that was

Re: lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-09 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-03-09, M-L wrote: On Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:58:49 -0400 rgheck rgh...@bobjweil.com wrote: As Jurgen said, export to 1.5.x should work on Windows, too. But you have to find the right file: FILENAME.lyx15. Thank you for that. I will have to look for the right file in windows. It seems

Re: lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Guenter Milde schrieb: As FILENAME.lyx15 will not be recognised as a LyX file by most file managers and is easily overseen by a user, I propose to open a destination-chooser (save-file dialogue) with export. I propose to export to name-lyx15.lyx instead to name.lyx15 regards Uwe

Re: lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-09 Thread rgheck
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Guenter Milde schrieb: As FILENAME.lyx15 will not be recognised as a LyX file by most file managers and is easily overseen by a user, I propose to open a destination-chooser (save-file dialogue) with export. I propose to export to name-lyx15.lyx instead to name.lyx15 Yes,

Re: lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-09 Thread M-L
On Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:34:24 -0400 rgheck rgh...@bobjweil.com wrote: M-L wrote: On Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:58:49 -0400 rgheck rgh...@bobjweil.com wrote: As Jurgen said, export to 1.5.x should work on Windows, too. But you have to find the right file: FILENAME.lyx15. Thank you

Re: problems with lyx 1.6.1

2009-03-09 Thread Gesualdo Scutari
: Dear all, I'm writing because I have a serious problem using lyx 1.6.1 on my MAC OS 10.5.6 and MacTex 2008. I'm used to write papers to be submitted to IEEE journals. I use both article class in lyx and IEEEtran class. In both cases lyx cannot load the bibliography. I see only [?] in the dvi

problems with lyx 1.6.1

2009-03-09 Thread Gesualdo Scutari
Dear all, I'm writing because I have a serious problem using lyx 1.6.1 on my MAC OS 10.5.6 and MacTex 2008. I'm used to write papers to be submitted to IEEE journals. I use both article class in lyx and IEEEtran class. In both cases lyx cannot load the bibliography. I see only

Re: lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 >>lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-09 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-03-09, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > One of my computers is running lyx 1.6.1 on which I recently wrote a > couple of documents. Then I had occasion to modify one of the .lyx files > on a different linux box. But the available version of lyx was only > 1.5.6 and when I t

Re: lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 >>lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-09 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > Is there a way to tell lyx 1.6.1 to save in an older lyx format? File>Export>LyX 1.5.x Jürgen

Re: lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 >>lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-09 Thread M-L
On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 08:35:40 +0100 Jürgen Spitzmüller <juer...@spitzmueller.org> wrote: > Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > > Is there a way to tell lyx 1.6.1 to save in an older lyx format? > > File>Export>LyX 1.5.x > > Jürgen I've tried that but it doesn't

Re: lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 >>lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-09 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
M-L wrote: > I've tried that but it doesn't work, or it doesn't work from LyX 1.6.1 > windows converting to LyX 1.5.x to be read by LyX 1.5.5 debian Lenny. What exactly doesn't work? Jürgen

Re: lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 >>lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-09 Thread Siegfried Meunier-Guttin-Cluzel
Since I often have this problem, I've found a workaround ( not a nice one, but it works when the formats aren't too different). I simply change the number of the LyX format. Open your file with a text editor and see the second line e. g. \lyxformat 276 Change this number to match the number used

Re: lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 >>lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-09 Thread M-L
ied. Thank you. I recall that I once had to change many documents from LyX 1.6.1 and deleted the first 6 or so lines at the top of the documents and replaced them with 6 or so lines of the older version. I didn't realise it was this simple. Anything that works is a nice workaround. So thank yo

Re: lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 >>lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-09 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
M-L wrote: > I recall that I once had to change many documents from LyX 1.6.1 and > deleted the first 6 or so lines at the top of the documents and replaced > them with 6 or so lines of the older version. I didn't realise it was this > simple. Anything that works is a nice worka

Re: lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 >>lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-09 Thread M-L
On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 11:21:45 +0100 Jürgen Spitzmüller <juer...@spitzmueller.org> wrote: > M-L wrote: > > I recall that I once had to change many documents from LyX 1.6.1 and > > deleted the first 6 or so lines at the top of the documents and > > replaced them with

Re: lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 >>lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-09 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
M-L wrote: > I created some files on LyX 1.6.1 in windows XP and then went to: > > File - then to Export - then to LyX 1.5.x > > With each of them. > > Then emailed them as an attachment and later picked it up on my Linux > Debian Lenny machine and tried to open it with L

RE: lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 >>lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-09 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
>I created some files on LyX 1.6.1 in windows XP and then went to: > >[...] > >Then emailed them as an attachment and later picked it up on >my Linux Debian Lenny machine and tried to open it with LyX >1.5.5 I've heard this before. I think this was raised as a possib

Re: lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 >>lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-09 Thread rgheck
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: The method proposed by Siegfried works if (and only if) you do not use a new feature of LyX 1.6 and if you do not use a feature whose semantics was changed (which is the case for many features). Let me just clarify what Jurgen means by this by giving an example.

Re: problems with lyx 1.6.1

2009-03-09 Thread rgheck
Gesualdo Scutari wrote: Dear all, I'm writing because I have a serious problem using lyx 1.6.1 on my MAC OS 10.5.6 and MacTex 2008. I'm used to write papers to be submitted to IEEE journals. I use both article class in lyx and IEEEtran class. In both cases lyx cannot load the bibliography. I

Re: problems with lyx 1.6.1

2009-03-09 Thread Florian Rubach
Gesualdo Scutari schrieb: Dear all, I'm writing because I have a serious problem using lyx 1.6.1 on my MAC OS 10.5.6 and MacTex 2008. I'm used to write papers to be submitted to IEEE journals. I use both article class in lyx and IEEEtran class. In both cases lyx cannot load the bibliography

Re: Very frequent crashes in 1.6.1 (with loss of work)

2009-03-09 Thread Richard Heck
rgheck wrote: Van Damme Michael wrote: I have downloaded version 1.6.2svn (from the svn server) and tried it, but the problem remains. Is is quick enough to reproduce (or you comuputer fast enough) to run Lyx under valgrind until you hit the problem? James I've never used

Re: problems with lyx 1.6.1

2009-03-09 Thread Richard Heck
Florian Rubach wrote: Gesualdo Scutari schrieb: Dear all, I'm writing because I have a serious problem using lyx 1.6.1 on my MAC OS 10.5.6 and MacTex 2008. I'm used to write papers to be submitted to IEEE journals. I use both article class in lyx and IEEEtran class. In both cases lyx cannot

re:Re: Very frequent crashes in 1.6.1 (with loss of work)

2009-03-09 Thread Van Damme Michael
>rgheck wrote: >>> >> I'll have a look at this under one of my Fedora 10 machines. >> >As I said in the bug report, I was unable to reproduce this problem >under F10, even fully updated. And that was using the test file attached >to the report, trying to follow the instructions given. It's

Re: lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 >>lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-09 Thread rgheck
M-L wrote: On Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:58:49 -0400 rgheck wrote: As Jurgen said, export to 1.5.x should work on Windows, too. But you have to find the right file: FILENAME.lyx15. Thank you for that. I will have to look for the right file in windows. It seems that was

Re: lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 >>lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-09 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-03-09, M-L wrote: > On Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:58:49 -0400 > rgheck wrote: >> As Jurgen said, export to 1.5.x should work on Windows, too. But you >> have to find the right file: FILENAME.lyx15. > Thank you for that. I will have to look for the right file in windows. >

Re: lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 >>lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Guenter Milde schrieb: As FILENAME.lyx15 will not be recognised as a LyX file by most file managers and is easily overseen by a user, I propose to open a destination-chooser (save-file dialogue) with export. I propose to export to "name-lyx15.lyx" instead to "name.lyx15" regards Uwe

Re: lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 >>lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-09 Thread rgheck
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Guenter Milde schrieb: As FILENAME.lyx15 will not be recognised as a LyX file by most file managers and is easily overseen by a user, I propose to open a destination-chooser (save-file dialogue) with export. I propose to export to "name-lyx15.lyx" instead to "name.lyx15"

Re: lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 >>lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-09 Thread M-L
On Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:34:24 -0400 rgheck wrote: > M-L wrote: > > On Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:58:49 -0400 > > rgheck wrote: > > > >> As Jurgen said, export to 1.5.x should work on Windows, too. But > >> you have to find the right file: FILENAME.lyx15. >

Re: problems with lyx 1.6.1

2009-03-09 Thread Gesualdo Scutari
: Dear all, I'm writing because I have a serious problem using lyx 1.6.1 on my MAC OS 10.5.6 and MacTex 2008. I'm used to write papers to be submitted to IEEE journals. I use both article class in lyx and IEEEtran class. In both cases lyx cannot load the bibliography. I see only [?] in the dvi

Re: Very frequent crashes in 1.6.1 (with loss of work)

2009-03-08 Thread Pavel Sanda
Van Damme Michael wrote: since I like lyx I will invest time to try to find out which package is the cause. please do then. it could help in the similar cases too... pavel

Re: Very frequent crashes in 1.6.1 (with loss of work)

2009-03-08 Thread James Mansion
Van Damme Michael wrote: I have downloaded version 1.6.2svn (from the svn server) and tried it, but the problem remains. Is is quick enough to reproduce (or you comuputer fast enough) to run Lyx under valgrind until you hit the problem? James

re:Re: Very frequent crashes in 1.6.1 (with loss of work)

2009-03-08 Thread Van Damme Michael
I have downloaded version 1.6.2svn (from the svn server) and tried it, but the problem remains. Is is quick enough to reproduce (or you comuputer fast enough) to run Lyx under valgrind until you hit the problem? James I've never used valgrind, but it is quick to reproduce. When my thesis

Re: Very frequent crashes in 1.6.1 (with loss of work)

2009-03-08 Thread rgheck
Van Damme Michael wrote: I have downloaded version 1.6.2svn (from the svn server) and tried it, but the problem remains. Is is quick enough to reproduce (or you comuputer fast enough) to run Lyx under valgrind until you hit the problem? James I've never used valgrind, but it

Re: Very frequent crashes in 1.6.1 (with loss of work)

2009-03-08 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 08 March 2009 11:48:57 am James Mansion wrote: Van Damme Michael wrote: I have downloaded version 1.6.2svn (from the svn server) and tried it, but the problem remains. Is is quick enough to reproduce (or you comuputer fast enough) to run Lyx under valgrind until you hit the

lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-08 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
Hello. I happen to like lyx. for lots of things. But I need to be able to access my documents via more than one computer. Not all of which are easy to upgrade to newer software versions. One of my computers is running lyx 1.6.1 on which I recently wrote a couple of documents. Then I had occasion

Re: Very frequent crashes in 1.6.1 (with loss of work)

2009-03-08 Thread Pavel Sanda
Van Damme Michael wrote: since I like lyx I will invest time to try to find out which package is the cause. please do then. it could help in the similar cases too... pavel

Re: Very frequent crashes in 1.6.1 (with loss of work)

2009-03-08 Thread James Mansion
Van Damme Michael wrote: I have downloaded version 1.6.2svn (from the svn server) and tried it, but the problem remains. Is is quick enough to reproduce (or you comuputer fast enough) to run Lyx under valgrind until you hit the problem? James

re:Re: Very frequent crashes in 1.6.1 (with loss of work)

2009-03-08 Thread Van Damme Michael
I have downloaded version 1.6.2svn (from the svn server) and tried it, but the problem remains. Is is quick enough to reproduce (or you comuputer fast enough) to run Lyx under valgrind until you hit the problem? James I've never used valgrind, but it is quick to reproduce. When my thesis

Re: Very frequent crashes in 1.6.1 (with loss of work)

2009-03-08 Thread rgheck
Van Damme Michael wrote: I have downloaded version 1.6.2svn (from the svn server) and tried it, but the problem remains. Is is quick enough to reproduce (or you comuputer fast enough) to run Lyx under valgrind until you hit the problem? James I've never used valgrind, but it

Re: Very frequent crashes in 1.6.1 (with loss of work)

2009-03-08 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 08 March 2009 11:48:57 am James Mansion wrote: Van Damme Michael wrote: I have downloaded version 1.6.2svn (from the svn server) and tried it, but the problem remains. Is is quick enough to reproduce (or you comuputer fast enough) to run Lyx under valgrind until you hit the

lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-08 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
Hello. I happen to like lyx. for lots of things. But I need to be able to access my documents via more than one computer. Not all of which are easy to upgrade to newer software versions. One of my computers is running lyx 1.6.1 on which I recently wrote a couple of documents. Then I had occasion

Re: Very frequent crashes in 1.6.1 (with loss of work)

2009-03-08 Thread Pavel Sanda
Van Damme Michael wrote: > since I like lyx I will invest time to try to find out which package is the > cause. please do then. it could help in the similar cases too... pavel

Re: Very frequent crashes in 1.6.1 (with loss of work)

2009-03-08 Thread James Mansion
Van Damme Michael wrote: I have downloaded version 1.6.2svn (from the svn server) and tried it, but the problem remains. Is is quick enough to reproduce (or you comuputer fast enough) to run Lyx under valgrind until you hit the problem? James

re:Re: Very frequent crashes in 1.6.1 (with loss of work)

2009-03-08 Thread Van Damme Michael
>> I have downloaded version 1.6.2svn (from the svn server) and tried it, but >> the problem remains. >> >Is is quick enough to reproduce (or you comuputer fast enough) to run >Lyx under valgrind until you hit the problem? > >James I've never used valgrind, but it is quick to reproduce. When

Re: Very frequent crashes in 1.6.1 (with loss of work)

2009-03-08 Thread rgheck
Van Damme Michael wrote: I have downloaded version 1.6.2svn (from the svn server) and tried it, but the problem remains. Is is quick enough to reproduce (or you comuputer fast enough) to run Lyx under valgrind until you hit the problem? James I've never used valgrind, but it

Re: Very frequent crashes in 1.6.1 (with loss of work)

2009-03-08 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 08 March 2009 11:48:57 am James Mansion wrote: > Van Damme Michael wrote: > > I have downloaded version 1.6.2svn (from the svn server) and tried it, > > but the problem remains. > > Is is quick enough to reproduce (or you comuputer fast enough) to run > Lyx under valgrind until you hit

lyx2lyx script failed... lyx 1.6.1 >>lyx 1.5.6

2009-03-08 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
Hello. I happen to like lyx. for lots of things. But I need to be able to access my documents via more than one computer. Not all of which are easy to upgrade to newer software versions. One of my computers is running lyx 1.6.1 on which I recently wrote a couple of documents. Then I had occasion

Re: LyX-1.6.1 boost problem on lenovoT61

2009-03-07 Thread Pavel Sanda
Hellmut Weber wrote: Hi, I'm setting up my Lenovo T61 with Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9300 @ 2.50GHz using gentoo Linux. When trying to compile LyX-1.6.1 from the gentoo ebuild I run into problems with boost-1.34.1-r2 stable. I can merge boost-1.36.0 or boost-1.37.0, but in these cases

Very frequent crashes in 1.6.1 (with loss of work)

2009-03-07 Thread Van Damme Michael
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

Re: Very frequent crashes in 1.6.1 (with loss of work)

2009-03-07 Thread Pavel Sanda
Van Damme Michael wrote: If anyone has any suggestions I would be very grateful. from the list you gave i would try what happen if you downgrade xorg-* and also libpng could be related. qt upgrade didnt happen? the last resort is to compile lyx in debug mode, run it under gdb and provide us

Re: Very frequent crashes in 1.6.1 (with loss of work)

2009-03-07 Thread Van Damme Michael
Thank you for your reply. I've compiled lyx-1.6.1 in debug mode (using the latest stable source available on the lyx site) and ran it under gdb. Once locked-up, I interrupted it in gdb and got the following backtrace: #0 0x00943416 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1 0x006a83d1 in select () from /lib

Re: Very frequent crashes in 1.6.1 (with loss of work)

2009-03-07 Thread Pavel Sanda
Van Damme Michael wrote: Thank you for your reply. I've compiled lyx-1.6.1 in debug mode (using the latest stable source available on the lyx site) and ran it under gdb. Once locked-up, I interrupted it in gdb and got the following backtrace: #0 0x00943416 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1

Re: Very frequent crashes in 1.6.1 (with loss of work)

2009-03-07 Thread Pavel Sanda
Pavel Sanda wrote: Van Damme Michael wrote: Thank you for your reply. I've compiled lyx-1.6.1 in debug mode (using the latest stable source available on the lyx site) and ran it under gdb. Once locked-up, I interrupted it in gdb and got the following backtrace: #0 0x00943416

Re:Re: Very frequent crashes in 1.6.1 (with loss of work)

2009-03-07 Thread Van Damme Michael
Pavel Sanda wrote: #0 0x00943416 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1 0x006a83d1 in select () from /lib/libc.so.6 #2 0x00911295 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 #3 0x0091293f in xcb_wait_for_event () from /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 ahh i have seen this backtrace i guess you are the next victim of

Re: Re: Very frequent crashes in 1.6.1 (with loss of work)

2009-03-07 Thread Pavel Sanda
Van Damme Michael wrote: #0 0x00943416 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1 0x006a83d1 in select () from /lib/libc.so.6 #2 0x00911295 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 #3 0x0091293f in xcb_wait_for_event () from /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 ahh i have seen this backtrace i guess you are the

Re: Very frequent crashes in 1.6.1 (with loss of work)

2009-03-07 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday 07 March 2009 06:28:34 pm Van Damme Michael wrote: On fedora, libxcb is in a separate package, but it has never been updated (the installed version is the one that came with fedora 10 originally). I have downgraded myx xorg packages to the previously installed version, but that

Re: Very frequent crashes in 1.6.1 (with loss of work)

2009-03-07 Thread Stefano Franchi
On Saturday 07 March 2009 15:30:19 Pavel Sanda wrote: Van Damme Michael wrote: Thank you for your reply. I've compiled lyx-1.6.1 in debug mode (using the latest stable source available on the lyx site) and ran it under gdb. Once locked-up, I interrupted it in gdb and got the following

Re: Very frequent crashes in 1.6.1 (with loss of work)

2009-03-07 Thread Van Damme Michael
Pavel and Steve, thanks for your helpful comments. maybe. but there are striking similarities - lyx input frozen, no cpu load, bt points somewhere in between qt-xorg, libxcb used; (in this we enter there through QInputContext::reset()). It's true that there are many similarities. There are no

Re: LyX-1.6.1 boost problem on lenovoT61

2009-03-07 Thread Pavel Sanda
Hellmut Weber wrote: Hi, I'm setting up my Lenovo T61 with Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9300 @ 2.50GHz using gentoo Linux. When trying to compile LyX-1.6.1 from the gentoo ebuild I run into problems with boost-1.34.1-r2 stable. I can merge boost-1.36.0 or boost-1.37.0, but in these cases

Very frequent crashes in 1.6.1 (with loss of work)

2009-03-07 Thread Van Damme Michael
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

Re: Very frequent crashes in 1.6.1 (with loss of work)

2009-03-07 Thread Pavel Sanda
Van Damme Michael wrote: If anyone has any suggestions I would be very grateful. from the list you gave i would try what happen if you downgrade xorg-* and also libpng could be related. qt upgrade didnt happen? the last resort is to compile lyx in debug mode, run it under gdb and provide us

Re: Very frequent crashes in 1.6.1 (with loss of work)

2009-03-07 Thread Van Damme Michael
Thank you for your reply. I've compiled lyx-1.6.1 in debug mode (using the latest stable source available on the lyx site) and ran it under gdb. Once locked-up, I interrupted it in gdb and got the following backtrace: #0 0x00943416 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1 0x006a83d1 in select () from /lib

Re: Very frequent crashes in 1.6.1 (with loss of work)

2009-03-07 Thread Pavel Sanda
Van Damme Michael wrote: Thank you for your reply. I've compiled lyx-1.6.1 in debug mode (using the latest stable source available on the lyx site) and ran it under gdb. Once locked-up, I interrupted it in gdb and got the following backtrace: #0 0x00943416 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1

Re: Very frequent crashes in 1.6.1 (with loss of work)

2009-03-07 Thread Pavel Sanda
Pavel Sanda wrote: Van Damme Michael wrote: Thank you for your reply. I've compiled lyx-1.6.1 in debug mode (using the latest stable source available on the lyx site) and ran it under gdb. Once locked-up, I interrupted it in gdb and got the following backtrace: #0 0x00943416

Re:Re: Very frequent crashes in 1.6.1 (with loss of work)

2009-03-07 Thread Van Damme Michael
Pavel Sanda wrote: #0 0x00943416 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1 0x006a83d1 in select () from /lib/libc.so.6 #2 0x00911295 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 #3 0x0091293f in xcb_wait_for_event () from /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 ahh i have seen this backtrace i guess you are the next victim of

Re: Re: Very frequent crashes in 1.6.1 (with loss of work)

2009-03-07 Thread Pavel Sanda
Van Damme Michael wrote: #0 0x00943416 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1 0x006a83d1 in select () from /lib/libc.so.6 #2 0x00911295 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 #3 0x0091293f in xcb_wait_for_event () from /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 ahh i have seen this backtrace i guess you are the

Re: Very frequent crashes in 1.6.1 (with loss of work)

2009-03-07 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday 07 March 2009 06:28:34 pm Van Damme Michael wrote: On fedora, libxcb is in a separate package, but it has never been updated (the installed version is the one that came with fedora 10 originally). I have downgraded myx xorg packages to the previously installed version, but that

Re: Very frequent crashes in 1.6.1 (with loss of work)

2009-03-07 Thread Stefano Franchi
On Saturday 07 March 2009 15:30:19 Pavel Sanda wrote: Van Damme Michael wrote: Thank you for your reply. I've compiled lyx-1.6.1 in debug mode (using the latest stable source available on the lyx site) and ran it under gdb. Once locked-up, I interrupted it in gdb and got the following

Re: Very frequent crashes in 1.6.1 (with loss of work)

2009-03-07 Thread Van Damme Michael
Pavel and Steve, thanks for your helpful comments. maybe. but there are striking similarities - lyx input frozen, no cpu load, bt points somewhere in between qt-xorg, libxcb used; (in this we enter there through QInputContext::reset()). It's true that there are many similarities. There are no

Re: LyX-1.6.1 boost problem on lenovoT61

2009-03-07 Thread Pavel Sanda
Hellmut Weber wrote: > Hi, > I'm setting up my Lenovo T61 with > Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9300 @ 2.50GHz > using gentoo Linux. > > When trying to compile LyX-1.6.1 from the gentoo ebuild > I run into problems with boost-1.34.1-r2 stable. > I can merge boos

Very frequent crashes in 1.6.1 (with loss of work)

2009-03-07 Thread Van Damme Michael
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

Re: Very frequent crashes in 1.6.1 (with loss of work)

2009-03-07 Thread Pavel Sanda
Van Damme Michael wrote: > If anyone has any suggestions I would be very grateful. from the list you gave i would try what happen if you downgrade xorg-* and also libpng could be related. qt upgrade didnt happen? the last resort is to compile lyx in debug mode, run it under gdb and provide us

Re: Very frequent crashes in 1.6.1 (with loss of work)

2009-03-07 Thread Van Damme Michael
Thank you for your reply. I've compiled lyx-1.6.1 in debug mode (using the latest stable source available on the lyx site) and ran it under gdb. Once locked-up, I interrupted it in gdb and got the following backtrace: #0 0x00943416 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1 0x006a83d1 in select () from /lib

Re: Very frequent crashes in 1.6.1 (with loss of work)

2009-03-07 Thread Pavel Sanda
Van Damme Michael wrote: > > Thank you for your reply. > I've compiled lyx-1.6.1 in debug mode (using the latest stable source > available on the lyx site) and ran it under gdb. Once locked-up, I > interrupted it in gdb and got the following backtrace: > #0 0x00943416 in

Re: Very frequent crashes in 1.6.1 (with loss of work)

2009-03-07 Thread Pavel Sanda
Pavel Sanda wrote: > Van Damme Michael wrote: > > > > Thank you for your reply. > > I've compiled lyx-1.6.1 in debug mode (using the latest stable source > > available on the lyx site) and ran it under gdb. Once locked-up, I > > interrupted it in gdb and got t

Re:Re: Very frequent crashes in 1.6.1 (with loss of work)

2009-03-07 Thread Van Damme Michael
Pavel Sanda wrote: >> #0 0x00943416 in __kernel_vsyscall () >> #1 0x006a83d1 in select () from /lib/libc.so.6 >> #2 0x00911295 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 >> #3 0x0091293f in xcb_wait_for_event () from /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 > >ahh i have seen this backtrace >i guess you are the

Re: Re: Very frequent crashes in 1.6.1 (with loss of work)

2009-03-07 Thread Pavel Sanda
Van Damme Michael wrote: > >> #0 0x00943416 in __kernel_vsyscall () > >> #1 0x006a83d1 in select () from /lib/libc.so.6 > >> #2 0x00911295 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 > >> #3 0x0091293f in xcb_wait_for_event () from /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 > > > >ahh i have seen this backtrace > >i

Re: Very frequent crashes in 1.6.1 (with loss of work)

2009-03-07 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday 07 March 2009 06:28:34 pm Van Damme Michael wrote: > On fedora, libxcb is in a separate package, but it has never been updated > (the installed version is the one that came with fedora 10 originally). I > have downgraded myx xorg packages to the previously installed version, but >

Re: Very frequent crashes in 1.6.1 (with loss of work)

2009-03-07 Thread Stefano Franchi
On Saturday 07 March 2009 15:30:19 Pavel Sanda wrote: > Van Damme Michael wrote: > > Thank you for your reply. > > I've compiled lyx-1.6.1 in debug mode (using the latest stable source > > available on the lyx site) and ran it under gdb. Once locked-up, I > > in

Re: Very frequent crashes in 1.6.1 (with loss of work)

2009-03-07 Thread Van Damme Michael
Pavel and Steve, thanks for your helpful comments. >maybe. but there are striking similarities - lyx input frozen, no cpu load, bt >points somewhere >in between qt<->xorg, libxcb used; (in this we enter there through >QInputContext::reset()). It's true that there are many similarities. There

LyX-1.6.1 boost problem on lenovoT61

2009-03-05 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi, I'm setting up my Lenovo T61 with Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9300 @ 2.50GHz using gentoo Linux. When trying to compile LyX-1.6.1 from the gentoo ebuild I run into problems with boost-1.34.1-r2 stable. I can merge boost-1.36.0 or boost-1.37.0, but in these cases merge of lyx-1.6.1.crashes

incorrect germanic umlaut display in lyx 1.6.1

2009-03-05 Thread Jörg Müller-Barkei
Hello, I actually came across a weird bug in LyX 1.6.1. I am working in Opensuse 11.1 with the actual new KDE 4.2.1 /Ot 4.5 rc1 release of Opensuse (of today!) I'm a newbie to LaTeX and LyX and getting a little irritated. Its as follows: since today when I type a text in german I get these ( ÃÃÃ

SV: incorrect germanic umlaut display in lyx 1.6.1

2009-03-05 Thread Ingar Pareliussen
I actually came across a weird bug in LyX 1.6.1. I am working in Opensuse 11.1 with the actual new KDE 4.2.1 /Ot 4.5 rc1 It is probably the error in Qt4.5rc1, Qt4.5 is reported to have been fixed. Ingar

LyX-1.6.1 boost problem on lenovoT61

2009-03-05 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi, I'm setting up my Lenovo T61 with Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9300 @ 2.50GHz using gentoo Linux. When trying to compile LyX-1.6.1 from the gentoo ebuild I run into problems with boost-1.34.1-r2 stable. I can merge boost-1.36.0 or boost-1.37.0, but in these cases merge of lyx-1.6.1.crashes

incorrect germanic umlaut display in lyx 1.6.1

2009-03-05 Thread Jörg Müller-Barkei
Hello, I actually came across a weird bug in LyX 1.6.1. I am working in Opensuse 11.1 with the actual new KDE 4.2.1 /Ot 4.5 rc1 release of Opensuse (of today!) I'm a newbie to LaTeX and LyX and getting a little irritated. Its as follows: since today when I type a text in german I get these ( ÃÃÃ

SV: incorrect germanic umlaut display in lyx 1.6.1

2009-03-05 Thread Ingar Pareliussen
I actually came across a weird bug in LyX 1.6.1. I am working in Opensuse 11.1 with the actual new KDE 4.2.1 /Ot 4.5 rc1 It is probably the error in Qt4.5rc1, Qt4.5 is reported to have been fixed. Ingar

LyX-1.6.1 boost problem on lenovoT61

2009-03-05 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi, I'm setting up my Lenovo T61 with Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9300 @ 2.50GHz using gentoo Linux. When trying to compile LyX-1.6.1 from the gentoo ebuild I run into problems with boost-1.34.1-r2 stable. I can merge boost-1.36.0 or boost-1.37.0, but in these cases merge of lyx-1.6.1.crashes

incorrect germanic umlaut display in lyx 1.6.1

2009-03-05 Thread Jörg Müller-Barkei
Hello, I actually came across a weird bug in LyX 1.6.1. I am working in Opensuse 11.1 with the actual new KDE 4.2.1 /Ot 4.5 rc1 release of Opensuse (of today!) I'm a newbie to LaTeX and LyX and getting a little irritated. Its as follows: since today when I type a text in german I get these ( ÃÃÃ

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