LyX 2.4.0 RC3

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Sorry for the slow response.

Running from a terminal indeed showed repeated configuration runs. Near the top of the first run (and only the first run) were these lines:

+Running LyX configure with Python 3.9.18
Checking for upgrade from previous version.
Found directory "/Users/me/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.3".
Skip cache /Users/me/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.3/cache
Content copied from directory "/Users/me/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.3”.

I found three identical copies of chkconfig.ltx in each of

/Users/me/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.1/chkconfig.ltx
/Users/me/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.2/chkconfig.ltx
/Users/me/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.3/chkconfig.ltx


I zipped all of them and trashed the original. Now LyX 2.4.0 RC3 runs great.

Thanks for that tip.

I know how that file got there: LyX put it there. Maybe if the configuration file has changed for 2.4 then it shouldn’t copy old versions.

Note that 2.4 apparently just copies a bunch of stuff from the 2.3 directory because now there is this file:

/Users/me/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.4/chkconfig.ltx.zip

which is obviously a copy of the file that I zipped, likely from the corresponding 2.3 directory.

There is now no chkconfig.ltx in the 2.4 directory.

Jerry



> On Feb 14, 2024, at 4:13 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller <jspitzm at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Am Montag, dem 12.02.2024 um 22:59 -0700 schrieb list_email at icloud.com:
>> 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.
> 
> Can you open LyX from a Terminal window and observe the output? Is it
> possible that the configuration of LyX gets repeatedly run in a loop? 
> 
> I have had that when I first installed 2.4.x without version suffix,
> and it turned out I had an old version of chkconfig.ltx in my personal
> LyX directory (no idea how it ended there). As the configure syntax
> significantly changed, this broke configuration. Removing the file
> fixed the issue for me.
> 
> Maybe LyX 2.4 also accesses some outdated configuration files in your
> case. Or the configuration (or some conversion) fails for another
> reason.
> 
> Terminal output might help us pinpointing the issue.
> 
> -- 
> Jürgen
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