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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/14/20 11:28 AM, Jose Ramom Flores
das Seixas wrote:<br>
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<p>Hi:</p>
<p>I take a long time without using <i>LyX</i>, but my package manager has been updating lyx when new versions come out. Nowadays, I have installed version 2.3.5.2 (OS: Ubuntu 18.04).
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<p>Today I tried to edit a file, with lyxformat 544, but <i>LyX</i> tells me a module is missing. Looking at the module dialogue I found that no module is available.
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<p>I've checked that the standard module files are in /usr/share/lyx/layouts, and besides them I have some other modules in ~/.lyx/layouts.</p>
<p>When I run <i>LyX</i> from a terminal I can notice the following error:
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<p><tt><font color="#731717">UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xa9 in position 395: invalid start byte
support/Systemcall.cpp (276): Systemcall: 'python -tt "/usr/share/lyx/configure.py" --binary-dir="/usr/bin/"' finished with exit code 1</font></tt></p>
<p><font color="#731717"><tt> LyX: Done!</tt></font><font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace" color="#731717">
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<p>Finally, when executing <font size="+1"><b><tt>Reconfigure</tt></b></font>, an error dialog appears with the following message:
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><font size="+1" color="#731717"><tt>The system reconfiguration has failed.</tt></font></p>
<font size="+1" color="#731717"><tt> </tt></font>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><font size="+1" color="#731717"><tt>Default textclass is used but LyX may</tt></font></p>
<font size="+1" color="#731717"><tt> </tt></font>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><font size="+1" color="#731717"><tt>not be able to work properly.</tt></font></p>
<font size="+1" color="#731717"><tt> </tt></font>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><font size="+1" color="#731717"><tt>Please reconfigure again if needed.</tt></font></p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">I've run <font size="+1"><b><tt>Reconfigure</tt></b></font> several times, but the modules still don't appear.<tt><font color="#731717"><font size="+1"> </font></font></tt>Any leads on what's not going well?<font size="+1" color="#731717"><tt>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">Cheers</p>
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It would be nice to know if the alleged non-UTF8 character is in
configure.py or in some file it is trying to read.<br>
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I've attached configure.py from my system (Linux Mint 19.3). You
might start by comparing it to the one on your system (in
/usr/share/lyx) using diff, meld or whatever tool you prefer. If
there is a discrepancy, try reconfiguring using my copy.<br>
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If there's no difference in the script files, I would suggest trying
to run the configuration script directly in a terminal (python -tt
"/usr/share/lyx/configure.py" --binary-dir="/usr/bin/"). If you get
the same error message, check ~/.lyx/configure.log to see if you can
figure out where the error occurred, and maybe post the log here.<br>
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Paul<br>
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