Re: LyX crashed and now doesn't work

[Lee Bradshaw <lee@sectionIV.com>]

Thanks Pat. I think the full sequence that caused my problems was:

  Options/Reconfigure  (but didn't restart)
  crash in Math Panel
  restart lyx, but article class no available because reconfigure
    didn't work properly

After using Options/Reconfigure I have to

  cp /usr/X11R6/share/lyx/textclass.lst ~/.lyx

After removing ~/.lyx, and running lyx, the .lyx/textclass.lst file is
incorrect. I can again copy it from the system lyx directory to get
things working.

I've seen the problem on two systems - one has been upgraded through
several debian releases and the other was just slink base to potato.

The bug report is 62873. Can anyone else duplicate my problem with
Options/Reconfigure?

On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 12:44:27AM -0500, Pat Mahoney wrote:
> Try deleting your $(HOME)/.lyx dir. It may have been corrupted during the
> crash.
> 
> On Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 05:52:04PM -0400, Lee Bradshaw wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> LyX crashed while I was playing with the Math Panel. Now it only sees
>> two available textclasses in layout/document/class. Both are SGML and I
>> was using the default article class . I purged and reinstalled LyX, but
>> there was no change. Here's the error log from trying to generate a dvi
>> file:
>> 
> ...snip...
> 

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