Re: WORKAROUND and BUG: Yosemite + LyX

[Yihui Xie]

Yes, this may solve some problems but not all. The PATH bug is still
there on Yosemite, and I see it can still bite me in LyX after I
reconfigured from the terminal. For the time being, the only reliable
solution seems to be starting LyX from the terminal. See more info at
http://stackoverflow.com/q/26491934/559676 (and the link in the
answer). Since this is a general problem on Yosemite, you might find
other apps are affected as well (as long as they launch sub processes
and call programs that are not in /bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin). The
solution of starting apps from the terminal should apply to all of
them.

Regards,
Yihui
--
Yihui Xie xieyi...@gmail.com
Web: http://yihui.name


On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 4:06 AM, Rainer M Krug rai...@krugs.de wrote:
 THis seems to be a problem with paths and environmental variables passed
 to sub-processes (also mentiond on the R sig mac list): Yosemite seems
 to have implemented security mechanisms which do (to me) unknown things
 to paths and environmental variables.

 So, in a nutshell:

 1) If you do a reconfigure in LyX started from the icon / finder /
 spotlight, the reconfigure seems not to find the files needed, and does
 finish nearly immediately and does not creates an (empty?) configuration
 file

 2) If you start lyx from the terminal

 --8---cut here---start-8---
 /PATH/TO/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/lyx
 --8---cut here---end---8---

 and reconfigure then, it is working.

 Workaround:
 Startt from terminal and reconfigure - after this everything seems to be
 working

 Solution:
 No idea, but I guess an update in LyX

 Hope this helps,

 Rainer


 Christopher Menzel chris.men...@gmail.com writes:

 Hal Kierstead wrote:
 I am trying to use LyX 2.1.2 with Yosemite, but review does not work
 for me.  I cannot even preview the help manuals.  I can export them
 to LaTex and then compile them with LaTex.  This must be some path
 problem, but I do not know how to deal with it.  Any help would be
 appreciated.

 Couple of very quick ideas:

 . Perhaps reconfiguring (Tools - reconfigure) might help.
 . If you aren't using the latest version of MacTeX
 http://tug.org/mactex/, consider upgrading.

 -chris


 --
 Rainer M. Krug
 email: Raineratkrugsdotde
 PGP: 0x0F52F982

Re: WORKAROUND and BUG: Yosemite + LyX

[Liviu Andronic]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 6:10 PM, Yihui Xie x...@yihui.name wrote:
 Yes, this may solve some problems but not all. The PATH bug is still
 there on Yosemite, and I see it can still bite me in LyX after I
 reconfigured from the terminal. For the time being, the only reliable
 solution seems to be starting LyX from the terminal.

Or ditching Apple altogether? :)

Liviu


 See more info at
 http://stackoverflow.com/q/26491934/559676 (and the link in the
 answer). Since this is a general problem on Yosemite, you might find
 other apps are affected as well (as long as they launch sub processes
 and call programs that are not in /bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin). The
 solution of starting apps from the terminal should apply to all of
 them.

 Regards,
 Yihui
 --
 Yihui Xie xieyi...@gmail.com
 Web: http://yihui.name


 On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 4:06 AM, Rainer M Krug rai...@krugs.de wrote:
 THis seems to be a problem with paths and environmental variables passed
 to sub-processes (also mentiond on the R sig mac list): Yosemite seems
 to have implemented security mechanisms which do (to me) unknown things
 to paths and environmental variables.

 So, in a nutshell:

 1) If you do a reconfigure in LyX started from the icon / finder /
 spotlight, the reconfigure seems not to find the files needed, and does
 finish nearly immediately and does not creates an (empty?) configuration
 file

 2) If you start lyx from the terminal

 --8---cut here---start-8---
 /PATH/TO/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/lyx
 --8---cut here---end---8---

 and reconfigure then, it is working.

 Workaround:
 Startt from terminal and reconfigure - after this everything seems to be
 working

 Solution:
 No idea, but I guess an update in LyX

 Hope this helps,

 Rainer


 Christopher Menzel chris.men...@gmail.com writes:

 Hal Kierstead wrote:
 I am trying to use LyX 2.1.2 with Yosemite, but review does not work
 for me.  I cannot even preview the help manuals.  I can export them
 to LaTex and then compile them with LaTex.  This must be some path
 problem, but I do not know how to deal with it.  Any help would be
 appreciated.

 Couple of very quick ideas:

 . Perhaps reconfiguring (Tools - reconfigure) might help.
 . If you aren't using the latest version of MacTeX
 http://tug.org/mactex/, consider upgrading.

 -chris


 --
 Rainer M. Krug
 email: Raineratkrugsdotde
 PGP: 0x0F52F982



-- 
Do you think you know what math is?
http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/ian-stewart-2013-08-02
Or what it means to be intelligent?
http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/john-duncan-2013-08-30
Think again:
http://www.ideasroadshow.com/library

Re: WORKAROUND and BUG: Yosemite + LyX

[Yihui Xie]

I do not use Mac OS X very often (I use it mostly for testing
purposes), so personally I do not care. It is easy to ditch Apple by
myself, but not all Apple users :( (Same thing for Windows)

Regards,
Yihui
--
Yihui Xie xieyi...@gmail.com
Web: http://yihui.name


On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 6:10 PM, Yihui Xie x...@yihui.name wrote:
 Yes, this may solve some problems but not all. The PATH bug is still
 there on Yosemite, and I see it can still bite me in LyX after I
 reconfigured from the terminal. For the time being, the only reliable
 solution seems to be starting LyX from the terminal.

 Or ditching Apple altogether? :)

 Liviu

Re: WORKAROUND and BUG: Yosemite + LyX

[Yihui Xie]

Yes, this may solve some problems but not all. The PATH bug is still
there on Yosemite, and I see it can still bite me in LyX after I
reconfigured from the terminal. For the time being, the only reliable
solution seems to be starting LyX from the terminal. See more info at
http://stackoverflow.com/q/26491934/559676 (and the link in the
answer). Since this is a general problem on Yosemite, you might find
other apps are affected as well (as long as they launch sub processes
and call programs that are not in /bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin). The
solution of starting apps from the terminal should apply to all of
them.

Regards,
Yihui
--
Yihui Xie xieyi...@gmail.com
Web: http://yihui.name


On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 4:06 AM, Rainer M Krug rai...@krugs.de wrote:
 THis seems to be a problem with paths and environmental variables passed
 to sub-processes (also mentiond on the R sig mac list): Yosemite seems
 to have implemented security mechanisms which do (to me) unknown things
 to paths and environmental variables.

 So, in a nutshell:

 1) If you do a reconfigure in LyX started from the icon / finder /
 spotlight, the reconfigure seems not to find the files needed, and does
 finish nearly immediately and does not creates an (empty?) configuration
 file

 2) If you start lyx from the terminal

 --8---cut here---start-8---
 /PATH/TO/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/lyx
 --8---cut here---end---8---

 and reconfigure then, it is working.

 Workaround:
 Startt from terminal and reconfigure - after this everything seems to be
 working

 Solution:
 No idea, but I guess an update in LyX

 Hope this helps,

 Rainer


 Christopher Menzel chris.men...@gmail.com writes:

 Hal Kierstead wrote:
 I am trying to use LyX 2.1.2 with Yosemite, but review does not work
 for me.  I cannot even preview the help manuals.  I can export them
 to LaTex and then compile them with LaTex.  This must be some path
 problem, but I do not know how to deal with it.  Any help would be
 appreciated.

 Couple of very quick ideas:

 . Perhaps reconfiguring (Tools - reconfigure) might help.
 . If you aren't using the latest version of MacTeX
 http://tug.org/mactex/, consider upgrading.

 -chris


 --
 Rainer M. Krug
 email: Raineratkrugsdotde
 PGP: 0x0F52F982

Re: WORKAROUND and BUG: Yosemite + LyX

[Liviu Andronic]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 6:10 PM, Yihui Xie x...@yihui.name wrote:
 Yes, this may solve some problems but not all. The PATH bug is still
 there on Yosemite, and I see it can still bite me in LyX after I
 reconfigured from the terminal. For the time being, the only reliable
 solution seems to be starting LyX from the terminal.

Or ditching Apple altogether? :)

Liviu


 See more info at
 http://stackoverflow.com/q/26491934/559676 (and the link in the
 answer). Since this is a general problem on Yosemite, you might find
 other apps are affected as well (as long as they launch sub processes
 and call programs that are not in /bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin). The
 solution of starting apps from the terminal should apply to all of
 them.

 Regards,
 Yihui
 --
 Yihui Xie xieyi...@gmail.com
 Web: http://yihui.name


 On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 4:06 AM, Rainer M Krug rai...@krugs.de wrote:
 THis seems to be a problem with paths and environmental variables passed
 to sub-processes (also mentiond on the R sig mac list): Yosemite seems
 to have implemented security mechanisms which do (to me) unknown things
 to paths and environmental variables.

 So, in a nutshell:

 1) If you do a reconfigure in LyX started from the icon / finder /
 spotlight, the reconfigure seems not to find the files needed, and does
 finish nearly immediately and does not creates an (empty?) configuration
 file

 2) If you start lyx from the terminal

 --8---cut here---start-8---
 /PATH/TO/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/lyx
 --8---cut here---end---8---

 and reconfigure then, it is working.

 Workaround:
 Startt from terminal and reconfigure - after this everything seems to be
 working

 Solution:
 No idea, but I guess an update in LyX

 Hope this helps,

 Rainer


 Christopher Menzel chris.men...@gmail.com writes:

 Hal Kierstead wrote:
 I am trying to use LyX 2.1.2 with Yosemite, but review does not work
 for me.  I cannot even preview the help manuals.  I can export them
 to LaTex and then compile them with LaTex.  This must be some path
 problem, but I do not know how to deal with it.  Any help would be
 appreciated.

 Couple of very quick ideas:

 . Perhaps reconfiguring (Tools - reconfigure) might help.
 . If you aren't using the latest version of MacTeX
 http://tug.org/mactex/, consider upgrading.

 -chris


 --
 Rainer M. Krug
 email: Raineratkrugsdotde
 PGP: 0x0F52F982



-- 
Do you think you know what math is?
http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/ian-stewart-2013-08-02
Or what it means to be intelligent?
http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/john-duncan-2013-08-30
Think again:
http://www.ideasroadshow.com/library

Re: WORKAROUND and BUG: Yosemite + LyX

[Yihui Xie]

I do not use Mac OS X very often (I use it mostly for testing
purposes), so personally I do not care. It is easy to ditch Apple by
myself, but not all Apple users :( (Same thing for Windows)

Regards,
Yihui
--
Yihui Xie xieyi...@gmail.com
Web: http://yihui.name


On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 6:10 PM, Yihui Xie x...@yihui.name wrote:
 Yes, this may solve some problems but not all. The PATH bug is still
 there on Yosemite, and I see it can still bite me in LyX after I
 reconfigured from the terminal. For the time being, the only reliable
 solution seems to be starting LyX from the terminal.

 Or ditching Apple altogether? :)

 Liviu

Re: WORKAROUND and BUG: Yosemite + LyX

[Yihui Xie]

Yes, this may solve some problems but not all. The PATH bug is still
there on Yosemite, and I see it can still bite me in LyX after I
reconfigured from the terminal. For the time being, the only reliable
solution seems to be starting LyX from the terminal. See more info at
http://stackoverflow.com/q/26491934/559676 (and the link in the
answer). Since this is a general problem on Yosemite, you might find
other apps are affected as well (as long as they launch sub processes
and call programs that are not in /bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin). The
solution of starting apps from the terminal should apply to all of
them.

Regards,
Yihui
--
Yihui Xie 
Web: http://yihui.name


On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 4:06 AM, Rainer M Krug  wrote:
> THis seems to be a problem with paths and environmental variables passed
> to sub-processes (also mentiond on the R sig mac list): Yosemite seems
> to have implemented security mechanisms which do (to me) unknown things
> to paths and environmental variables.
>
> So, in a nutshell:
>
> 1) If you do a reconfigure in LyX started from the icon / finder /
> spotlight, the reconfigure seems not to find the files needed, and does
> finish nearly immediately and does not creates an (empty?) configuration
> file
>
> 2) If you start lyx from the terminal
>
> --8<---cut here---start->8---
> /PATH/TO/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/lyx
> --8<---cut here---end--->8---
>
> and reconfigure then, it is working.
>
> Workaround:
> Startt from terminal and reconfigure - after this everything seems to be
> working
>
> Solution:
> No idea, but I guess an update in LyX
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Rainer
>
>
> Christopher Menzel  writes:
>
>> Hal Kierstead wrote:
>>> I am trying to use LyX 2.1.2 with Yosemite, but review does not work
>>> for me.  I cannot even preview the help manuals.  I can export them
>>> to LaTex and then compile them with LaTex.  This must be some path
>>> problem, but I do not know how to deal with it.  Any help would be
>>> appreciated.
>>
>> Couple of very quick ideas:
>>
>> . Perhaps reconfiguring (Tools -> reconfigure) might help.
>> . If you aren't using the latest version of MacTeX
>> , consider upgrading.
>>
>> -chris
>>
>
> --
> Rainer M. Krug
> email: Rainerkrugsde
> PGP: 0x0F52F982

Re: WORKAROUND and BUG: Yosemite + LyX

[Liviu Andronic]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 6:10 PM, Yihui Xie  wrote:
> Yes, this may solve some problems but not all. The PATH bug is still
> there on Yosemite, and I see it can still bite me in LyX after I
> reconfigured from the terminal. For the time being, the only reliable
> solution seems to be starting LyX from the terminal.
>
Or ditching Apple altogether? :)

Liviu


> See more info at
> http://stackoverflow.com/q/26491934/559676 (and the link in the
> answer). Since this is a general problem on Yosemite, you might find
> other apps are affected as well (as long as they launch sub processes
> and call programs that are not in /bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin). The
> solution of starting apps from the terminal should apply to all of
> them.
>
> Regards,
> Yihui
> --
> Yihui Xie 
> Web: http://yihui.name
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 4:06 AM, Rainer M Krug  wrote:
>> THis seems to be a problem with paths and environmental variables passed
>> to sub-processes (also mentiond on the R sig mac list): Yosemite seems
>> to have implemented security mechanisms which do (to me) unknown things
>> to paths and environmental variables.
>>
>> So, in a nutshell:
>>
>> 1) If you do a reconfigure in LyX started from the icon / finder /
>> spotlight, the reconfigure seems not to find the files needed, and does
>> finish nearly immediately and does not creates an (empty?) configuration
>> file
>>
>> 2) If you start lyx from the terminal
>>
>> --8<---cut here---start->8---
>> /PATH/TO/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/lyx
>> --8<---cut here---end--->8---
>>
>> and reconfigure then, it is working.
>>
>> Workaround:
>> Startt from terminal and reconfigure - after this everything seems to be
>> working
>>
>> Solution:
>> No idea, but I guess an update in LyX
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>>
>> Rainer
>>
>>
>> Christopher Menzel  writes:
>>
>>> Hal Kierstead wrote:
 I am trying to use LyX 2.1.2 with Yosemite, but review does not work
 for me.  I cannot even preview the help manuals.  I can export them
 to LaTex and then compile them with LaTex.  This must be some path
 problem, but I do not know how to deal with it.  Any help would be
 appreciated.
>>>
>>> Couple of very quick ideas:
>>>
>>> . Perhaps reconfiguring (Tools -> reconfigure) might help.
>>> . If you aren't using the latest version of MacTeX
>>> , consider upgrading.
>>>
>>> -chris
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Rainer M. Krug
>> email: Rainerkrugsde
>> PGP: 0x0F52F982



-- 
Do you think you know what math is?
http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/ian-stewart-2013-08-02
Or what it means to be intelligent?
http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/john-duncan-2013-08-30
Think again:
http://www.ideasroadshow.com/library

Re: WORKAROUND and BUG: Yosemite + LyX

[Yihui Xie]

I do not use Mac OS X very often (I use it mostly for testing
purposes), so personally I do not care. It is easy to ditch Apple by
myself, but not all Apple users :( (Same thing for Windows)

Regards,
Yihui
--
Yihui Xie 
Web: http://yihui.name


On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Liviu Andronic  wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 6:10 PM, Yihui Xie  wrote:
>> Yes, this may solve some problems but not all. The PATH bug is still
>> there on Yosemite, and I see it can still bite me in LyX after I
>> reconfigured from the terminal. For the time being, the only reliable
>> solution seems to be starting LyX from the terminal.
>>
> Or ditching Apple altogether? :)
>
> Liviu