Re: Reconfigure with Ubuntu

2010-05-12 Thread Michele Cascella
Hi,
kudos to Paul for suggesting me to remove my ~/.lyx directory, it
worked and the issues has not reappeared. I'm a bit puzzled because
I've been trying to isolate the origin of issue but had no luck. I'll
try harder if I have the time.
Thanks again to everybody,

Emme

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Michele Cascella
michele.casce...@pi.infn.it wrote:
 Hi,
 lyx is giving me the:
 The system reconfiguration has failed.
 Default textclass is used but LyX may not be able to work properly.
 Please reconfigure again if needed.

 error message, but everything seems to be working. I can't figure out
 what's wrong from the configure.py output or from the LaTeXConfig.lyx
 (attached).

 Am I missing something? Could you take a look at them?

 Cheers,

 Emme

 On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 12:57 AM, Paul A. Rubin ru...@msu.edu wrote:
 Jason Waskiewicz wrote:

 Thank-you for the quick help (especially Paul Rubin)!

 You're welcome.  Been there, done that.  The T-shirt didn't fit.

 For any who are interested, I ran configure.py. It turned out that LyX was
 failing because of a .layout file I no longer use. When I copied my
 favorites into the new copy of LyX, I must have not been thinking and copied
 this old one in as well.

 I'm not sure why it didn't work (it used to), but removing it solved the
 problem.

 During one of the version updates (I think from 1.5.x to 1.6), changes were
 made that broke some layout files.  There's a conversion script
 (layout2layout.py) in the scripts directory; don't know if LyX automatically
 tries to run it against old layouts during a reconfiguration or not.

 /Paul





Re: Reconfigure with Ubuntu

2010-05-12 Thread Michele Cascella
Hi,
kudos to Paul for suggesting me to remove my ~/.lyx directory, it
worked and the issues has not reappeared. I'm a bit puzzled because
I've been trying to isolate the origin of issue but had no luck. I'll
try harder if I have the time.
Thanks again to everybody,

Emme

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Michele Cascella
michele.casce...@pi.infn.it wrote:
 Hi,
 lyx is giving me the:
 The system reconfiguration has failed.
 Default textclass is used but LyX may not be able to work properly.
 Please reconfigure again if needed.

 error message, but everything seems to be working. I can't figure out
 what's wrong from the configure.py output or from the LaTeXConfig.lyx
 (attached).

 Am I missing something? Could you take a look at them?

 Cheers,

 Emme

 On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 12:57 AM, Paul A. Rubin ru...@msu.edu wrote:
 Jason Waskiewicz wrote:

 Thank-you for the quick help (especially Paul Rubin)!

 You're welcome.  Been there, done that.  The T-shirt didn't fit.

 For any who are interested, I ran configure.py. It turned out that LyX was
 failing because of a .layout file I no longer use. When I copied my
 favorites into the new copy of LyX, I must have not been thinking and copied
 this old one in as well.

 I'm not sure why it didn't work (it used to), but removing it solved the
 problem.

 During one of the version updates (I think from 1.5.x to 1.6), changes were
 made that broke some layout files.  There's a conversion script
 (layout2layout.py) in the scripts directory; don't know if LyX automatically
 tries to run it against old layouts during a reconfiguration or not.

 /Paul





Re: Reconfigure with Ubuntu

2010-05-12 Thread Michele Cascella
Hi,
kudos to Paul for suggesting me to remove my ~/.lyx directory, it
worked and the issues has not reappeared. I'm a bit puzzled because
I've been trying to isolate the origin of issue but had no luck. I'll
try harder if I have the time.
Thanks again to everybody,

Emme

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Michele Cascella
 wrote:
> Hi,
> lyx is giving me the:
> "The system reconfiguration has failed.
> Default textclass is used but LyX may not be able to work properly.
> Please reconfigure again if needed."
>
> error message, but everything seems to be working. I can't figure out
> what's wrong from the configure.py output or from the LaTeXConfig.lyx
> (attached).
>
> Am I missing something? Could you take a look at them?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Emme
>
> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 12:57 AM, Paul A. Rubin  wrote:
>> Jason Waskiewicz wrote:
>>>
>>> Thank-you for the quick help (especially Paul Rubin)!
>>
>> You're welcome.  Been there, done that.  The T-shirt didn't fit.
>>
>>> For any who are interested, I ran configure.py. It turned out that LyX was
>>> failing because of a .layout file I no longer use. When I copied my
>>> favorites into the new copy of LyX, I must have not been thinking and copied
>>> this old one in as well.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure why it didn't work (it used to), but removing it solved the
>>> problem.
>>
>> During one of the version updates (I think from 1.5.x to 1.6), changes were
>> made that broke some layout files.  There's a conversion script
>> (layout2layout.py) in the scripts directory; don't know if LyX automatically
>> tries to run it against old layouts during a reconfiguration or not.
>>
>> /Paul
>>
>>
>


Re: Reconfigure with Ubuntu

2009-01-24 Thread Paul A. Rubin

Jason Waskiewicz wrote:

Thank-you for the quick help (especially Paul Rubin)!


You're welcome.  Been there, done that.  The T-shirt didn't fit.

For any who are interested, I ran configure.py. It turned out that LyX 
was failing because of a .layout file I no longer use. When I copied my 
favorites into the new copy of LyX, I must have not been thinking and 
copied this old one in as well.


I'm not sure why it didn't work (it used to), but removing it solved the 
problem.


During one of the version updates (I think from 1.5.x to 1.6), changes 
were made that broke some layout files.  There's a conversion script 
(layout2layout.py) in the scripts directory; don't know if LyX 
automatically tries to run it against old layouts during a 
reconfiguration or not.


/Paul



Re: Reconfigure with Ubuntu

2009-01-24 Thread Paul A. Rubin

Jason Waskiewicz wrote:

Thank-you for the quick help (especially Paul Rubin)!


You're welcome.  Been there, done that.  The T-shirt didn't fit.

For any who are interested, I ran configure.py. It turned out that LyX 
was failing because of a .layout file I no longer use. When I copied my 
favorites into the new copy of LyX, I must have not been thinking and 
copied this old one in as well.


I'm not sure why it didn't work (it used to), but removing it solved the 
problem.


During one of the version updates (I think from 1.5.x to 1.6), changes 
were made that broke some layout files.  There's a conversion script 
(layout2layout.py) in the scripts directory; don't know if LyX 
automatically tries to run it against old layouts during a 
reconfiguration or not.


/Paul



Re: Reconfigure with Ubuntu

2009-01-24 Thread Paul A. Rubin

Jason Waskiewicz wrote:

Thank-you for the quick help (especially Paul Rubin)!


You're welcome.  Been there, done that.  The T-shirt didn't fit.

For any who are interested, I ran configure.py. It turned out that LyX 
was failing because of a .layout file I no longer use. When I copied my 
favorites into the new copy of LyX, I must have not been thinking and 
copied this old one in as well.


I'm not sure why it didn't work (it used to), but removing it solved the 
problem.


During one of the version updates (I think from 1.5.x to 1.6), changes 
were made that broke some layout files.  There's a conversion script 
(layout2layout.py) in the scripts directory; don't know if LyX 
automatically tries to run it against old layouts during a 
reconfiguration or not.


/Paul



Re: Reconfigure with Ubuntu

2009-01-23 Thread Jason Waskiewicz
Thank-you for the quick help (especially Paul Rubin)! 


For any who are interested, I ran configure.py. It turned out that LyX was 
failing because of a .layout file I no longer use. When I copied my favorites 
into the new copy of LyX, I must have not been thinking and copied this old one 
in as well.

I'm not sure why it didn't work (it used to), but removing it solved the 
problem.


Thank-you again! I'm truly handicapped without LyX!

--Jason Waskiewicz
 Bowman County School




Re: Reconfigure with Ubuntu

2009-01-23 Thread Jason Waskiewicz
Thank-you for the quick help (especially Paul Rubin)! 


For any who are interested, I ran configure.py. It turned out that LyX was 
failing because of a .layout file I no longer use. When I copied my favorites 
into the new copy of LyX, I must have not been thinking and copied this old one 
in as well.

I'm not sure why it didn't work (it used to), but removing it solved the 
problem.


Thank-you again! I'm truly handicapped without LyX!

--Jason Waskiewicz
 Bowman County School




Re: Reconfigure with Ubuntu

2009-01-23 Thread Jason Waskiewicz
Thank-you for the quick help (especially Paul Rubin)! 


For any who are interested, I ran configure.py. It turned out that LyX was 
failing because of a .layout file I no longer use. When I copied my favorites 
into the new copy of LyX, I must have not been thinking and copied this old one 
in as well.

I'm not sure why it didn't work (it used to), but removing it solved the 
problem.


Thank-you again! I'm truly handicapped without LyX!

--Jason Waskiewicz
 Bowman County School




Re: Reconfigure with Ubuntu

2009-01-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin

Jason Waskiewicz wrote:
I've been using LyX for several years now on Fedora Linux, Windows XP, 
and OS X. I've never had any trouble adding extra layouts or text classes.


Recently, I switched to Ubuntu Linux (8.04 -- Hardy Heron). LyX will not 
allow me to reconfigure. I even did a fresh install without my additions 
and it simply will not reconfigure.



The exact message is:

The system reconfiguration has failed.

Default textclass is used but LyX may not be able to work properly.

Please reconfigure again if needed.


I've done a lot of reading and I'm not the only one who has run into 
this, but I have not seen how to solve it.


Can someone please help me?



First off, find where LyX has configure.py stashed.  Best guess is 
/usr/share/lyx.  Now open a terminal in your home directory and cd into 
the .lyx subdirectory.  (If ~/.lyx does not exist, create it with mkdir 
and chmod it to 755, then cd into it.)  From the .lyx subdirectory, run 
/usr/share/lyx/configure.py.  Hopefully something in the output will 
help pin down what is going wrong.


/Paul



Re: Reconfigure with Ubuntu

2009-01-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin

Jason Waskiewicz wrote:
I've been using LyX for several years now on Fedora Linux, Windows XP, 
and OS X. I've never had any trouble adding extra layouts or text classes.


Recently, I switched to Ubuntu Linux (8.04 -- Hardy Heron). LyX will not 
allow me to reconfigure. I even did a fresh install without my additions 
and it simply will not reconfigure.



The exact message is:

The system reconfiguration has failed.

Default textclass is used but LyX may not be able to work properly.

Please reconfigure again if needed.


I've done a lot of reading and I'm not the only one who has run into 
this, but I have not seen how to solve it.


Can someone please help me?



First off, find where LyX has configure.py stashed.  Best guess is 
/usr/share/lyx.  Now open a terminal in your home directory and cd into 
the .lyx subdirectory.  (If ~/.lyx does not exist, create it with mkdir 
and chmod it to 755, then cd into it.)  From the .lyx subdirectory, run 
/usr/share/lyx/configure.py.  Hopefully something in the output will 
help pin down what is going wrong.


/Paul



Re: Reconfigure with Ubuntu

2009-01-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin

Jason Waskiewicz wrote:
I've been using LyX for several years now on Fedora Linux, Windows XP, 
and OS X. I've never had any trouble adding extra layouts or text classes.


Recently, I switched to Ubuntu Linux (8.04 -- Hardy Heron). LyX will not 
allow me to reconfigure. I even did a fresh install without my additions 
and it simply will not reconfigure.



The exact message is:

The system reconfiguration has failed.

Default textclass is used but LyX may not be able to work properly.

Please reconfigure again if needed.


I've done a lot of reading and I'm not the only one who has run into 
this, but I have not seen how to solve it.


Can someone please help me?



First off, find where LyX has configure.py stashed.  Best guess is 
/usr/share/lyx.  Now open a terminal in your home directory and cd into 
the .lyx subdirectory.  (If ~/.lyx does not exist, create it with mkdir 
and chmod it to 755, then cd into it.)  From the .lyx subdirectory, run 
/usr/share/lyx/configure.py.  Hopefully something in the output will 
help pin down what is going wrong.


/Paul



Reconfigure with Ubuntu

2009-01-21 Thread Jason Waskiewicz
I've been using LyX for several years now on Fedora Linux, Windows XP, 
and OS X. I've never had any trouble adding extra layouts or text classes.


Recently, I switched to Ubuntu Linux (8.04 -- Hardy Heron). LyX will not 
allow me to reconfigure. I even did a fresh install without my additions 
and it simply will not reconfigure.



The exact message is:

The system reconfiguration has failed.

Default textclass is used but LyX may not be able to work properly.

Please reconfigure again if needed.


I've done a lot of reading and I'm not the only one who has run into 
this, but I have not seen how to solve it.


Can someone please help me?

--Jason Waskiewicz
 Bowman County Schools


Reconfigure with Ubuntu

2009-01-21 Thread Jason Waskiewicz
I've been using LyX for several years now on Fedora Linux, Windows XP, 
and OS X. I've never had any trouble adding extra layouts or text classes.


Recently, I switched to Ubuntu Linux (8.04 -- Hardy Heron). LyX will not 
allow me to reconfigure. I even did a fresh install without my additions 
and it simply will not reconfigure.



The exact message is:

The system reconfiguration has failed.

Default textclass is used but LyX may not be able to work properly.

Please reconfigure again if needed.


I've done a lot of reading and I'm not the only one who has run into 
this, but I have not seen how to solve it.


Can someone please help me?

--Jason Waskiewicz
 Bowman County Schools


Reconfigure with Ubuntu

2009-01-21 Thread Jason Waskiewicz
I've been using LyX for several years now on Fedora Linux, Windows XP, 
and OS X. I've never had any trouble adding extra layouts or text classes.


Recently, I switched to Ubuntu Linux (8.04 -- Hardy Heron). LyX will not 
allow me to reconfigure. I even did a fresh install without my additions 
and it simply will not reconfigure.



The exact message is:

The system reconfiguration has failed.

Default textclass is used but LyX may not be able to work properly.

Please reconfigure again if needed.


I've done a lot of reading and I'm not the only one who has run into 
this, but I have not seen how to solve it.


Can someone please help me?

--Jason Waskiewicz
 Bowman County Schools