RE: LyX crash feedback

2009-07-27 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
>That's a whole lot simpler and less risky than tampering >with my Qt4 version. Later, when I upgrade to Ubuntu K, >qt4 will be upgraded for me. To cite myself: "The best thing that I can think of in your case is that you have run into bug #5957: If you scale down an image with an odd number of r

Re: LyX crash feedback

2009-07-27 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 27 July 2009 10:16:11 Anton Driesse wrote: > Hi, > > I'm just in the process of setting up my new computer with Windows XP. I > installed the latest MikTex and LyX, opened my first file which I created > in version 1.6.0, scrolled down, and it crashed in exactly the way you > describe.

Re: LyX crash feedback

2009-07-27 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote: > >>> While I have your attention, I am still at a loss why I can't get a >>> response from the lyx ftp server. >> >>I don't use windows, but installing the latest Qt from: >> >>   http://www.qtsoftware.com/downloads/downloads#lg

RE: LyX crash feedback

2009-07-27 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
>> While I have your attention, I am still at a loss why I can't get a >> response from the lyx ftp server. > >I don't use windows, but installing the latest Qt from: > > http://www.qtsoftware.com/downloads/downloads#lgpl > >might help How ? Vincent

RE: LyX crash feedback

2009-07-27 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
>Hi, > >I'm just in the process of setting up my new computer with >Windows XP. I installed the latest MikTex and LyX, opened >my first file which I created in version 1.6.0, scrolled down, >and it crashed in exactly the way you describe. Three eps >figures were causing me problems, and it turn

Re: LyX crash feedback

2009-07-27 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Anton Driesse wrote: > While I have your attention, I am still at a loss why I can't get a response > from the lyx ftp server. I don't use windows, but installing the latest Qt from: http://www.qtsoftware.com/downloads/downloads#lgpl might help

Re: LyX crash feedback

2009-07-27 Thread Anton Driesse
Hi, I'm just in the process of setting up my new computer with Windows XP. I installed the latest MikTex and LyX, opened my first file which I created in version 1.6.0, scrolled down, and it crashed in exactly the way you describe. Three eps figures were causing me problems, and it turns out tha

Re: LyX crash feedback

2009-07-27 Thread Paul A. Rubin
John McCabe-Dansted wrote: Well they are in the Karmic repositories. Instructions on how to upgrade qt4 (fairly) safely are at: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg74482.html Scroll down past my instructions and follow Michael Gasper's clearer, better instructions. These i

Re: LyX crash feedback

2009-07-26 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 11:26 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> In the last 6 months this list has featured at least 10 reports of LyX >> 1.6.x terminating unexpectedly. I myself had instances of this in 1.6.2 and >> 1.6.3, and was lucky enough to find a workaround in

Re: LyX crash feedback

2009-07-26 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, In the last 6 months this list has featured at least 10 reports of LyX 1.6.x terminating unexpectedly. I myself had instances of this in 1.6.2 and 1.6.3, and was lucky enough to find a workaround in 1.6.3. Turns out, the lyx file causing the crash in my 1.6.3 featur

Re: LyX crash feedback

2009-07-26 Thread Nikos Alexandris
? wrote: ... > > I'd advice you to upgrade to Qt4.5.2. --%<-- Steve Litt wrote: > How do I do that? --%<-- There are no qt 4.5.2 packages in the repositories for Jaunty (yet, and who knows if there will be an update before Karmic Koala). Eventually you can avoid compiling from source by gett

Re: LyX crash feedback

2009-07-26 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 26 July 2009 05:49:44 you wrote: > Steve Litt schreef: > > So here's my question for everyone reporting 1.6.x crashes: Did your [clip] > Steve, > > A lot of the crashes that were reported actually came from people that > were using Ubuntu 9.04. The problem was that Ubuntu was shipped with

Re: LyX crash feedback

2009-07-26 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: The best thing that I can think of in your case is that you have run into bug #5957: If you scale down an image with an odd number of rows to 50% (on screen), Qt4.5.0 would crash. I've used much larger eps graphics which didn't show your problem (on Windows). A

Re: LyX crash feedback

2009-07-26 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Steve Litt schreef: So here's my question for everyone reporting 1.6.x crashes: Did your files include graphics? Did they include large graphics? Were any of the large graphics .eps files? Was there anybody suffering a 1.6.x crash whose file DID NOT have graphic files? If there's anyone curre