LyX 2.4.0 RC3

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I’m sorry to report continuing problems on macOS 12.7.2, Monterey with LyX 2.4.0 RC3.

Hangs (pinwheel) on first launch with only Apple and LyX menu items, then same on second launch.  Very low CPU and memory use. Force quit both.

Deleted /Users/me/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.4/

Re-launch. Opens “Welcome to LyX!”. Then I did Document -> View -> (PDF (pdflatex)). No PDF is created. Instead, rapid looping of some messages in the status bar, apparently involved with TeX stuff, such as “Indexing TeX files… .” Document -> Cancel Export has no effect. At the same time, about 24 files are being written or modified in  /Users/me/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.4/ every 1-3 seconds. I am able to capture the contents of e.g. configure.log. Attempt to quit normally causes this dialog: " LyX could not be closed because documents are being processed by LyX.”

Force quit again.

Re-launch. Hangs as on first launch; no Welcome.

Re-boot. Same sort of behavior. Safe boot. Same: Sometimes opens Welcome then hangs. Sometimes doesn’t finish drawing menu bar and hangs. Sometimes opens Welcome and hangs when trying to open a new file. Can no longer get to where I can attempt to make a PDF.

LyX 2,3.7 built with MacPorts still works fine.

Jerry


> On Feb 11, 2024, at 2:41 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck <rikiheck at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The third release candidate for 2.4.0 is available here:
> 
>     http://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-2.4/
> 
> The reason for the quick release of the third one was a bug preventing the editing of math in tables. That has been fixed, as has been another bug affecting the creation of LyX 'archives' on Windows.
> 
> Please report any problems to lyx-devel at lists.lyx.org, which you should be able to do by replying to this message.
> 
> Riki
> 
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