Re: Error with MikTeX

[Marzi]

Thank you very much. I had the same problem. 

Re: Error with MikTeX

[Leto]

Thank you sir !
Really !
Had the same problem, same solution !

Re: Error with MikTeX

[Leto]

Thank you sir !
Really !
Had the same problem, same solution !

Re: Error with MikTeX

[Leto]

Thank you sir !
Really !
Had the same problem, same solution !

Error with MikTeX

[Julio Rojas]

Dear all, since I reinstalled MikTeX 2.9 (due to the RC2 problem with
1.6), I've been having the following error while updating/installing
packages:

MiKTeX Problem Report
Message: Windows API error 87: The parameter is incorrect.

Data: 
C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9\miktex/data/le\b1cfc6be702f63eea92ca0fbc9559e5c.fndb
Source: Libraries\MiKTeX\Core\win\winMemoryMappedFile.cpp
Line: 120
MiKTeX: 2.9
OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Edition, 64-bit (build 7600)
Invokers: explorer
SystemAdmin: yes
PowerUser: no
Root0: C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9
Root1: C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9
Root2: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9
Root3: C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9
UserInstall: C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9
UserConfig: C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9
UserData: C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9
CommonInstall: C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9
CommonConfig: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9
CommonData: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9

I'm stuck with this problem. Changing repositories does nothing. Does
anybody know how to solve it?

Regards.
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com

Re: Error with MikTeX

[Julio Rojas]

Problem solved. PDFLatex doesn't die after a problematic run due to an
uninstalled package. It was blocking some files which, I guess, needed
to be modified by the Package Manager. After killing PDFLatex
installation run smoothly.

This was an undocumented error as far as I know. I hope this message
will be stored in Google's indexes for all eternity, making
troubleshooting a simpler task. ;)

Regards.
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com



On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com wrote:
 Dear all, since I reinstalled MikTeX 2.9 (due to the RC2 problem with
 1.6), I've been having the following error while updating/installing
 packages:

 MiKTeX Problem Report
 Message: Windows API error 87: The parameter is incorrect.

 Data: 
 C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9\miktex/data/le\b1cfc6be702f63eea92ca0fbc9559e5c.fndb
 Source: Libraries\MiKTeX\Core\win\winMemoryMappedFile.cpp
 Line: 120
 MiKTeX: 2.9
 OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Edition, 64-bit (build 7600)
 Invokers: explorer
 SystemAdmin: yes
 PowerUser: no
 Root0: C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9
 Root1: C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9
 Root2: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9
 Root3: C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9
 UserInstall: C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9
 UserConfig: C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9
 UserData: C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9
 CommonInstall: C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9
 CommonConfig: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9
 CommonData: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9

 I'm stuck with this problem. Changing repositories does nothing. Does
 anybody know how to solve it?

 Regards.
 -
 Julio Rojas
 jcredbe...@gmail.com

Error with MikTeX

[Julio Rojas]

Dear all, since I reinstalled MikTeX 2.9 (due to the RC2 problem with
1.6), I've been having the following error while updating/installing
packages:

MiKTeX Problem Report
Message: Windows API error 87: The parameter is incorrect.

Data: 
C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9\miktex/data/le\b1cfc6be702f63eea92ca0fbc9559e5c.fndb
Source: Libraries\MiKTeX\Core\win\winMemoryMappedFile.cpp
Line: 120
MiKTeX: 2.9
OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Edition, 64-bit (build 7600)
Invokers: explorer
SystemAdmin: yes
PowerUser: no
Root0: C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9
Root1: C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9
Root2: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9
Root3: C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9
UserInstall: C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9
UserConfig: C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9
UserData: C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9
CommonInstall: C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9
CommonConfig: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9
CommonData: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9

I'm stuck with this problem. Changing repositories does nothing. Does
anybody know how to solve it?

Regards.
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com

Re: Error with MikTeX

[Julio Rojas]

Problem solved. PDFLatex doesn't die after a problematic run due to an
uninstalled package. It was blocking some files which, I guess, needed
to be modified by the Package Manager. After killing PDFLatex
installation run smoothly.

This was an undocumented error as far as I know. I hope this message
will be stored in Google's indexes for all eternity, making
troubleshooting a simpler task. ;)

Regards.
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com



On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com wrote:
 Dear all, since I reinstalled MikTeX 2.9 (due to the RC2 problem with
 1.6), I've been having the following error while updating/installing
 packages:

 MiKTeX Problem Report
 Message: Windows API error 87: The parameter is incorrect.

 Data: 
 C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9\miktex/data/le\b1cfc6be702f63eea92ca0fbc9559e5c.fndb
 Source: Libraries\MiKTeX\Core\win\winMemoryMappedFile.cpp
 Line: 120
 MiKTeX: 2.9
 OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Edition, 64-bit (build 7600)
 Invokers: explorer
 SystemAdmin: yes
 PowerUser: no
 Root0: C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9
 Root1: C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9
 Root2: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9
 Root3: C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9
 UserInstall: C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9
 UserConfig: C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9
 UserData: C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9
 CommonInstall: C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9
 CommonConfig: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9
 CommonData: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9

 I'm stuck with this problem. Changing repositories does nothing. Does
 anybody know how to solve it?

 Regards.
 -
 Julio Rojas
 jcredbe...@gmail.com

Error with MikTeX

[Julio Rojas]

Dear all, since I reinstalled MikTeX 2.9 (due to the RC2 problem with
1.6), I've been having the following error while updating/installing
packages:

MiKTeX Problem Report
Message: Windows API error 87: The parameter is incorrect.

Data: 
C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9\miktex/data/le\b1cfc6be702f63eea92ca0fbc9559e5c.fndb
Source: Libraries\MiKTeX\Core\win\winMemoryMappedFile.cpp
Line: 120
MiKTeX: 2.9
OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Edition, 64-bit (build 7600)
Invokers: explorer
SystemAdmin: yes
PowerUser: no
Root0: C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9
Root1: C:\Users\\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9
Root2: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9
Root3: C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9
UserInstall: C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9
UserConfig: C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9
UserData: C:\Users\\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9
CommonInstall: C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9
CommonConfig: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9
CommonData: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9

I'm stuck with this problem. Changing repositories does nothing. Does
anybody know how to solve it?

Regards.
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com

Re: Error with MikTeX

[Julio Rojas]

Problem solved. PDFLatex doesn't die after a problematic run due to an
uninstalled package. It was blocking some files which, I guess, needed
to be modified by the Package Manager. After killing PDFLatex
installation run smoothly.

This was an undocumented error as far as I know. I hope this message
will be stored in Google's indexes for all eternity, making
troubleshooting a simpler task. ;)

Regards.
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com



On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Julio Rojas  wrote:
> Dear all, since I reinstalled MikTeX 2.9 (due to the RC2 problem with
> 1.6), I've been having the following error while updating/installing
> packages:
>
> MiKTeX Problem Report
> Message: Windows API error 87: The parameter is incorrect.
>
> Data: 
> C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9\miktex/data/le\b1cfc6be702f63eea92ca0fbc9559e5c.fndb
> Source: Libraries\MiKTeX\Core\win\winMemoryMappedFile.cpp
> Line: 120
> MiKTeX: 2.9
> OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Edition, 64-bit (build 7600)
> Invokers: explorer
> SystemAdmin: yes
> PowerUser: no
> Root0: C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9
> Root1: C:\Users\\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9
> Root2: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9
> Root3: C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9
> UserInstall: C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9
> UserConfig: C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9
> UserData: C:\Users\\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9
> CommonInstall: C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9
> CommonConfig: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9
> CommonData: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9
>
> I'm stuck with this problem. Changing repositories does nothing. Does
> anybody know how to solve it?
>
> Regards.
> -
> Julio Rojas
> jcredbe...@gmail.com
>

Error in MiKTeX package manager

[Dave Hewitt]

I was trying to install the preview package for instant preview (as 
instructed by the help docs online; just turning it on in Preferences did 
not work)... and I got this error. I am an Admin on the machine and have 
the newest LyX version. LyX was closed when I was doing this. Not sure what 
the cause would be.


MiKTeX Problem Report
Message: Permission denied: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application 
Data\MiKTeX\2.6\miktex\config\5c9c2effd97adbeacc8bf220bf73149c.fndb
Data: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application 
Data\MiKTeX\2.6\miktex\config\5c9c2effd97adbeacc8bf220bf73149c.fndb

Source: C:\work3\miktex-2.6\Libraries\MiKTeX\Core\win\winFile.cpp
Line: 712
MiKTeX: 2.6
OS: Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
SystemAdmin: yes
PowerUser: yes
SharedSetup: yes
BinDir: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.6\miktex\bin
Root0: C:\Documents and Settings\dhewitt\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6
Root1: C:\Documents and Settings\dhewitt\Local Settings\Application 
Data\MiKTeX\2.6

Root2: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6
Root3: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.6
Install: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.6
UserConfig: C:\Documents and Settings\dhewitt\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6
UserData: C:\Documents and Settings\dhewitt\Local Settings\Application 
Data\MiKTeX\2.6

CommonConfig: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6
CommonData: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6

Re: Error in MiKTeX package manager

[Paul A. Rubin]

Dave Hewitt wrote:
I was trying to install the preview package for instant preview (as 
instructed by the help docs online; just turning it on in Preferences 
did not work)... and I got this error. I am an Admin on the machine and 
have the newest LyX version. LyX was closed when I was doing this. Not 
sure what the cause would be.


MiKTeX Problem Report
Message: Permission denied: C:\Documents and Settings\All 
Users\Application 
Data\MiKTeX\2.6\miktex\config\5c9c2effd97adbeacc8bf220bf73149c.fndb
Data: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application 
Data\MiKTeX\2.6\miktex\config\5c9c2effd97adbeacc8bf220bf73149c.fndb

Source: C:\work3\miktex-2.6\Libraries\MiKTeX\Core\win\winFile.cpp
Line: 712
MiKTeX: 2.6
OS: Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
SystemAdmin: yes
PowerUser: yes
SharedSetup: yes
BinDir: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.6\miktex\bin
Root0: C:\Documents and Settings\dhewitt\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6
Root1: C:\Documents and Settings\dhewitt\Local Settings\Application 
Data\MiKTeX\2.6

Root2: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6
Root3: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.6
Install: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.6
UserConfig: C:\Documents and Settings\dhewitt\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6
UserData: C:\Documents and Settings\dhewitt\Local Settings\Application 
Data\MiKTeX\2.6
CommonConfig: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application 
Data\MiKTeX\2.6

CommonData: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6




Could be a transient error.  See 
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/browse_thread/thread/f6c01b1b1df5cf3c 
for one possible explanation.


If you run the MikTeX Settings application and click Refresh FNDB, 
does the same thing happen, or does it work ok?


Have you retried the package installation?

/Paul

Error in MiKTeX package manager

[Dave Hewitt]

Paul et al.,

It was apparently a transient error, as you suggested. It worked the next 
time around, with a caveat.


The caveat is that it gave me a timeout was reached error at one point 
and quit. I noticed that when I installed one package before, a DOS window 
came up near the end of the installation, did some work, and then 
disappeared. This time I was installing about 10 new packages (document 
classes, mostly). When the timeout was reached, the DOS window had not come 
up, so it never did. What goes on in that window, and is it critical?


I ask because one of the packages (nrc) supposedly adds classes for 
articles in the NRC journals, but I don't get any classes of such name as 
options in LyX. So buried in here is a further question about adding 
classes and making them available in LyX, which continues to baffle me (I'm 
new to the whole LaTeX deal; started from square one a few days ago). Once 
a package is installed in MiKTeX, what else does one need to do, besides 
Reconfigure LyX?


Thanks a bunch for the ongoing help,
Dave

Re: Error in MiKTeX package manager

[Paul A. Rubin]

Dave Hewitt wrote:


The caveat is that it gave me a timeout was reached error at one point 
and quit. I noticed that when I installed one package before, a DOS 
window came up near the end of the installation, did some work, and then 
disappeared. This time I was installing about 10 new packages (document 
classes, mostly). When the timeout was reached, the DOS window had not 
come up, so it never did. What goes on in that window, and is it critical?


After the packages have been downloaded and unpacked, MikTeX has to 
refresh its file name database (which is how it knows where to find all 
those packages when you want to use them).  Additionally, if the 
packages install new fonts, it has to do some LaTeX magic to record the 
font metrics or some such.  As to whether it's critical that the 
post-download installation stuff runs, only if you want to use the 
packages.  :-)


Try running MikTeX's Settings application, and in the general tab click 
Refresh FNDB and, when that's done, Update Formats (may or may not 
be necessary, but can't hurt).  This is the stuff the package installer 
does automatically at the end of an installation, but you can always do 
it here (and will have to if you install a LaTeX package from a source 
other than a MikTeX repository).


I ask because one of the packages (nrc) supposedly adds classes for 
articles in the NRC journals, but I don't get any classes of such name 
as options in LyX.


You wouldn't even if the installation went smoothly.  In order to use a 
document class in LyX, you need two things:  the LaTeX package, properly 
installed; and a layout file (which tells LyX what stuff goes in a 
document of that class, and how to lay it out on-screen).  Help - 
Customization chapter 5 goes into the sordid details, but the usual 
approach is to copy a layout file from an existing class that's similar 
to yours, paste it into your local layouts directory with a new name, 
edit it a bit, reconfigure LyX (Tools - Reconfigure), restart LyX and 
hope for the best.  (Sacrificing a small furry animal, such as a 
wolverine, might help, though I wouldn't advertise that to PETA.)


The layouts that come with LyX are installed at 
lyxroot/Resources/layouts.  When in doubt, article.layout (for the 
basic article class) is usually a good layout to start from.  Customized 
layouts can be stored in home/layouts, where home is your home 
directory (helpfully listed under user directory in Help - About LyX).


LyX expects the name of the layout file to match the name of the 
document class file, so if you installed 'nrc.cls' then you'll want to 
create 'nrc.layout'.  In the second line of the layout file, you'll see


# \DeclareLaTeXClass{whatever}

-- change whatever is inside the braces to the language you want to see 
in the drop-down list of classes (e.g., article (NRC)).  That should 
get you started.  Further changes will be necessary to add some 
specialized feature of the NRC class that you really need (such as a 
special environment for cursing out reviewers) or to get rid of some 
environment that doesn't exist in the NRC class (so that you don't 
accidentally select it and have to sift through LaTeX error messages).


So buried in here is a further question about adding 
classes and making them available in LyX, which continues to baffle me 
(I'm new to the whole LaTeX deal; started from square one a few days 
ago). Once a package is installed in MiKTeX, what else does one need to 
do, besides Reconfigure LyX?


Thanks a bunch for the ongoing help,
Dave




/Paul

Error in MiKTeX package manager

[Dave Hewitt]

I was trying to install the preview package for instant preview (as 
instructed by the help docs online; just turning it on in Preferences did 
not work)... and I got this error. I am an Admin on the machine and have 
the newest LyX version. LyX was closed when I was doing this. Not sure what 
the cause would be.


MiKTeX Problem Report
Message: Permission denied: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application 
Data\MiKTeX\2.6\miktex\config\5c9c2effd97adbeacc8bf220bf73149c.fndb
Data: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application 
Data\MiKTeX\2.6\miktex\config\5c9c2effd97adbeacc8bf220bf73149c.fndb

Source: C:\work3\miktex-2.6\Libraries\MiKTeX\Core\win\winFile.cpp
Line: 712
MiKTeX: 2.6
OS: Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
SystemAdmin: yes
PowerUser: yes
SharedSetup: yes
BinDir: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.6\miktex\bin
Root0: C:\Documents and Settings\dhewitt\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6
Root1: C:\Documents and Settings\dhewitt\Local Settings\Application 
Data\MiKTeX\2.6

Root2: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6
Root3: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.6
Install: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.6
UserConfig: C:\Documents and Settings\dhewitt\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6
UserData: C:\Documents and Settings\dhewitt\Local Settings\Application 
Data\MiKTeX\2.6

CommonConfig: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6
CommonData: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6

Re: Error in MiKTeX package manager

[Paul A. Rubin]

Dave Hewitt wrote:
I was trying to install the preview package for instant preview (as 
instructed by the help docs online; just turning it on in Preferences 
did not work)... and I got this error. I am an Admin on the machine and 
have the newest LyX version. LyX was closed when I was doing this. Not 
sure what the cause would be.


MiKTeX Problem Report
Message: Permission denied: C:\Documents and Settings\All 
Users\Application 
Data\MiKTeX\2.6\miktex\config\5c9c2effd97adbeacc8bf220bf73149c.fndb
Data: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application 
Data\MiKTeX\2.6\miktex\config\5c9c2effd97adbeacc8bf220bf73149c.fndb

Source: C:\work3\miktex-2.6\Libraries\MiKTeX\Core\win\winFile.cpp
Line: 712
MiKTeX: 2.6
OS: Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
SystemAdmin: yes
PowerUser: yes
SharedSetup: yes
BinDir: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.6\miktex\bin
Root0: C:\Documents and Settings\dhewitt\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6
Root1: C:\Documents and Settings\dhewitt\Local Settings\Application 
Data\MiKTeX\2.6

Root2: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6
Root3: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.6
Install: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.6
UserConfig: C:\Documents and Settings\dhewitt\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6
UserData: C:\Documents and Settings\dhewitt\Local Settings\Application 
Data\MiKTeX\2.6
CommonConfig: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application 
Data\MiKTeX\2.6

CommonData: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6




Could be a transient error.  See 
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/browse_thread/thread/f6c01b1b1df5cf3c 
for one possible explanation.


If you run the MikTeX Settings application and click Refresh FNDB, 
does the same thing happen, or does it work ok?


Have you retried the package installation?

/Paul

Error in MiKTeX package manager

[Dave Hewitt]

Paul et al.,

It was apparently a transient error, as you suggested. It worked the next 
time around, with a caveat.


The caveat is that it gave me a timeout was reached error at one point 
and quit. I noticed that when I installed one package before, a DOS window 
came up near the end of the installation, did some work, and then 
disappeared. This time I was installing about 10 new packages (document 
classes, mostly). When the timeout was reached, the DOS window had not come 
up, so it never did. What goes on in that window, and is it critical?


I ask because one of the packages (nrc) supposedly adds classes for 
articles in the NRC journals, but I don't get any classes of such name as 
options in LyX. So buried in here is a further question about adding 
classes and making them available in LyX, which continues to baffle me (I'm 
new to the whole LaTeX deal; started from square one a few days ago). Once 
a package is installed in MiKTeX, what else does one need to do, besides 
Reconfigure LyX?


Thanks a bunch for the ongoing help,
Dave

Re: Error in MiKTeX package manager

[Paul A. Rubin]

Dave Hewitt wrote:


The caveat is that it gave me a timeout was reached error at one point 
and quit. I noticed that when I installed one package before, a DOS 
window came up near the end of the installation, did some work, and then 
disappeared. This time I was installing about 10 new packages (document 
classes, mostly). When the timeout was reached, the DOS window had not 
come up, so it never did. What goes on in that window, and is it critical?


After the packages have been downloaded and unpacked, MikTeX has to 
refresh its file name database (which is how it knows where to find all 
those packages when you want to use them).  Additionally, if the 
packages install new fonts, it has to do some LaTeX magic to record the 
font metrics or some such.  As to whether it's critical that the 
post-download installation stuff runs, only if you want to use the 
packages.  :-)


Try running MikTeX's Settings application, and in the general tab click 
Refresh FNDB and, when that's done, Update Formats (may or may not 
be necessary, but can't hurt).  This is the stuff the package installer 
does automatically at the end of an installation, but you can always do 
it here (and will have to if you install a LaTeX package from a source 
other than a MikTeX repository).


I ask because one of the packages (nrc) supposedly adds classes for 
articles in the NRC journals, but I don't get any classes of such name 
as options in LyX.


You wouldn't even if the installation went smoothly.  In order to use a 
document class in LyX, you need two things:  the LaTeX package, properly 
installed; and a layout file (which tells LyX what stuff goes in a 
document of that class, and how to lay it out on-screen).  Help - 
Customization chapter 5 goes into the sordid details, but the usual 
approach is to copy a layout file from an existing class that's similar 
to yours, paste it into your local layouts directory with a new name, 
edit it a bit, reconfigure LyX (Tools - Reconfigure), restart LyX and 
hope for the best.  (Sacrificing a small furry animal, such as a 
wolverine, might help, though I wouldn't advertise that to PETA.)


The layouts that come with LyX are installed at 
lyxroot/Resources/layouts.  When in doubt, article.layout (for the 
basic article class) is usually a good layout to start from.  Customized 
layouts can be stored in home/layouts, where home is your home 
directory (helpfully listed under user directory in Help - About LyX).


LyX expects the name of the layout file to match the name of the 
document class file, so if you installed 'nrc.cls' then you'll want to 
create 'nrc.layout'.  In the second line of the layout file, you'll see


# \DeclareLaTeXClass{whatever}

-- change whatever is inside the braces to the language you want to see 
in the drop-down list of classes (e.g., article (NRC)).  That should 
get you started.  Further changes will be necessary to add some 
specialized feature of the NRC class that you really need (such as a 
special environment for cursing out reviewers) or to get rid of some 
environment that doesn't exist in the NRC class (so that you don't 
accidentally select it and have to sift through LaTeX error messages).


So buried in here is a further question about adding 
classes and making them available in LyX, which continues to baffle me 
(I'm new to the whole LaTeX deal; started from square one a few days 
ago). Once a package is installed in MiKTeX, what else does one need to 
do, besides Reconfigure LyX?


Thanks a bunch for the ongoing help,
Dave




/Paul

Error in MiKTeX package manager

[Dave Hewitt]

I was trying to install the "preview" package for instant preview (as 
instructed by the help docs online; just turning it on in Preferences did 
not work)... and I got this error. I am an Admin on the machine and have 
the newest LyX version. LyX was closed when I was doing this. Not sure what 
the cause would be.


MiKTeX Problem Report
Message: Permission denied: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application 
Data\MiKTeX\2.6\miktex\config\5c9c2effd97adbeacc8bf220bf73149c.fndb
Data: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application 
Data\MiKTeX\2.6\miktex\config\5c9c2effd97adbeacc8bf220bf73149c.fndb

Source: C:\work3\miktex-2.6\Libraries\MiKTeX\Core\win\winFile.cpp
Line: 712
MiKTeX: 2.6
OS: Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
SystemAdmin: yes
PowerUser: yes
SharedSetup: yes
BinDir: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.6\miktex\bin
Root0: C:\Documents and Settings\dhewitt\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6
Root1: C:\Documents and Settings\dhewitt\Local Settings\Application 
Data\MiKTeX\2.6

Root2: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6
Root3: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.6
Install: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.6
UserConfig: C:\Documents and Settings\dhewitt\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6
UserData: C:\Documents and Settings\dhewitt\Local Settings\Application 
Data\MiKTeX\2.6

CommonConfig: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6
CommonData: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6

Re: Error in MiKTeX package manager

[Paul A. Rubin]

Dave Hewitt wrote:
I was trying to install the "preview" package for instant preview (as 
instructed by the help docs online; just turning it on in Preferences 
did not work)... and I got this error. I am an Admin on the machine and 
have the newest LyX version. LyX was closed when I was doing this. Not 
sure what the cause would be.


MiKTeX Problem Report
Message: Permission denied: C:\Documents and Settings\All 
Users\Application 
Data\MiKTeX\2.6\miktex\config\5c9c2effd97adbeacc8bf220bf73149c.fndb
Data: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application 
Data\MiKTeX\2.6\miktex\config\5c9c2effd97adbeacc8bf220bf73149c.fndb

Source: C:\work3\miktex-2.6\Libraries\MiKTeX\Core\win\winFile.cpp
Line: 712
MiKTeX: 2.6
OS: Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
SystemAdmin: yes
PowerUser: yes
SharedSetup: yes
BinDir: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.6\miktex\bin
Root0: C:\Documents and Settings\dhewitt\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6
Root1: C:\Documents and Settings\dhewitt\Local Settings\Application 
Data\MiKTeX\2.6

Root2: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6
Root3: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.6
Install: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.6
UserConfig: C:\Documents and Settings\dhewitt\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6
UserData: C:\Documents and Settings\dhewitt\Local Settings\Application 
Data\MiKTeX\2.6
CommonConfig: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application 
Data\MiKTeX\2.6

CommonData: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6




Could be a transient error.  See 
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/browse_thread/thread/f6c01b1b1df5cf3c 
for one possible explanation.


If you run the MikTeX Settings application and click "Refresh FNDB", 
does the same thing happen, or does it work ok?


Have you retried the package installation?

/Paul

Error in MiKTeX package manager

[Dave Hewitt]

Paul et al.,

It was apparently a transient error, as you suggested. It worked the next 
time around, with a caveat.


The caveat is that it gave me a "timeout was reached" error at one point 
and quit. I noticed that when I installed one package before, a DOS window 
came up near the end of the installation, did some work, and then 
disappeared. This time I was installing about 10 new packages (document 
classes, mostly). When the timeout was reached, the DOS window had not come 
up, so it never did. What goes on in that window, and is it critical?


I ask because one of the packages (nrc) supposedly adds classes for 
articles in the NRC journals, but I don't get any classes of such name as 
options in LyX. So buried in here is a further question about adding 
classes and making them available in LyX, which continues to baffle me (I'm 
new to the whole LaTeX deal; started from square one a few days ago). Once 
a package is installed in MiKTeX, what else does one need to do, besides 
Reconfigure LyX?


Thanks a bunch for the ongoing help,
Dave

Re: Error in MiKTeX package manager

[Paul A. Rubin]

Dave Hewitt wrote:


The caveat is that it gave me a "timeout was reached" error at one point 
and quit. I noticed that when I installed one package before, a DOS 
window came up near the end of the installation, did some work, and then 
disappeared. This time I was installing about 10 new packages (document 
classes, mostly). When the timeout was reached, the DOS window had not 
come up, so it never did. What goes on in that window, and is it critical?


After the packages have been downloaded and unpacked, MikTeX has to 
refresh its file name database (which is how it knows where to find all 
those packages when you want to use them).  Additionally, if the 
packages install new fonts, it has to do some LaTeX magic to record the 
font metrics or some such.  As to whether it's critical that the 
post-download installation stuff runs, only if you want to use the 
packages.  :-)


Try running MikTeX's Settings application, and in the general tab click 
"Refresh FNDB" and, when that's done, "Update Formats" (may or may not 
be necessary, but can't hurt).  This is the stuff the package installer 
does automatically at the end of an installation, but you can always do 
it here (and will have to if you install a LaTeX package from a source 
other than a MikTeX repository).


I ask because one of the packages (nrc) supposedly adds classes for 
articles in the NRC journals, but I don't get any classes of such name 
as options in LyX.


You wouldn't even if the installation went smoothly.  In order to use a 
document class in LyX, you need two things:  the LaTeX package, properly 
installed; and a layout file (which tells LyX what stuff goes in a 
document of that class, and how to lay it out on-screen).  Help -> 
Customization chapter 5 goes into the sordid details, but the usual 
approach is to copy a layout file from an existing class that's similar 
to yours, paste it into your local layouts directory with a new name, 
edit it a bit, reconfigure LyX (Tools -> Reconfigure), restart LyX and 
hope for the best.  (Sacrificing a small furry animal, such as a 
wolverine, might help, though I wouldn't advertise that to PETA.)


The layouts that come with LyX are installed at 
/Resources/layouts.  When in doubt, article.layout (for the 
basic article class) is usually a good layout to start from.  Customized 
layouts can be stored in /layouts, where  is your home 
directory (helpfully listed under "user directory" in Help -> About LyX).


LyX expects the name of the layout file to match the name of the 
document class file, so if you installed 'nrc.cls' then you'll want to 
create 'nrc.layout'.  In the second line of the layout file, you'll see


# \DeclareLaTeXClass{whatever}

-- change whatever is inside the braces to the language you want to see 
in the drop-down list of classes (e.g., "article (NRC)").  That should 
get you started.  Further changes will be necessary to add some 
specialized feature of the NRC class that you really need (such as a 
special environment for cursing out reviewers) or to get rid of some 
environment that doesn't exist in the NRC class (so that you don't 
accidentally select it and have to sift through LaTeX error messages).


So buried in here is a further question about adding 
classes and making them available in LyX, which continues to baffle me 
(I'm new to the whole LaTeX deal; started from square one a few days 
ago). Once a package is installed in MiKTeX, what else does one need to 
do, besides Reconfigure LyX?


Thanks a bunch for the ongoing help,
Dave




/Paul